Janilise Rivera

Hope
Janilise Rivera Mojica
12-2
Advanced English
Hope is the thing with feathers
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
I've heard it in the chillest land,
Emily Dickinson
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
Hope
by Emily Dickinson
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
A sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm
It asked a crumb of me
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

(December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886)
was an American poet who was born in Amherst, Massachusetts
to a successful family with strong community ties. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Only two of her poems were published in her lifetime. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. After her death, her younger sister Lavinia found hundreds of poems Dickinson had written; got them published, and Emily Dickinson's reputation grew from there, making her one of literature's most renowned poets.