In “Hope is the Thing with Feathers,” the speaker is an unnamed person who has gone through trials in life and continues to feel a sense of…

“Hope is the thing with feathers” is a kind of hymn of praise, written to honor the human capacity for hope. Using extended metaphor, the poem portrays hope as a bird that lives within the human soul; this bird sings come rain or shine, gale or storm, good times or bad.

The rhyming scheme used is a-b-c-b is an erratic one. Each second and fourth are rhyming automatically. In case of second stanza, using rhyming scheme a-b-a-b, first and third verses rhyme with each other as does fourth and second.

Metaphor: There is one extended metaphor in the poem. Dickenson has compared hope with “feathers”/ “bird” which shows how it sings and gives courage to the spirit of a person. Personification: When an inanimate object is given human characteristics or qualities, it is personified.

The song the bird’s sung is the feeling that hope gives a person when he is at his lowest. It builds a person up and gives him the will to go on. The feathers themselves represent hope and life. If a bird has lost its feathers, it is ill or possibly has lost the ability to fly.

Hope, for Dickinson, sings its wordless tune and never stops singing it: nothing can faze it. In other words (as it were), hope does not communicate by ‘speaking’ to us in a conventional sense: it is a feeling that we get, not always a rational one, that cheers us even in dark times of despair.

“Grabbing everything on the land” is a famous poem written by Lily Usher. The central theme of the poem is the affects of a Tsunami. The Tsunami is compared to a massive hand of destruction and ruins born in the sea and sweeping across the land.

The three central characters—Stephen Dedalus (the hero of Joyce’s earlier Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man); Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising canvasser; and his wife, Molly—are intended to be modern counterparts of Telemachus, Ulysses (Odysseus), and Penelope, respectively, and the events of the novel loosely …

Henry shares his insights on a poem that is important to understanding the Outward Bound motto. At our most recent Board meeting, I found an occasion to recite some of the Tennyson poem “Ulysses,” from which Outward Bound’s motto, To Serve, to Strive and Not to Yield is taken.

“Ulysses” is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted poem, it is a popular example of the dramatic monologue.

Ulysses is the Roman name for Odysseus, a hero in ancient Greek literature.

entitledThe Adventures of Telemachus

Ulysses is a mythological hero from Ancient Greece. It was said that the man who wrote his stories was Homer. He faced witches, sirens, Cyclopes, and other men competing for the love of his supposedly widowed wife. By using wit and a little help from the gods and his loyal crew, he overcame every challenge he faced.