That's the kind of debate prompt that has poetry critics taking sides and cracking their knuckles over their laptops. She is well-known for the originality of her poetic style.Hope is the thing with feathers IntroductionĮmily Dickinson: reclusive genius or overrated shut-in?
About the AuthorĮmily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet whose first volume of poems was not published until four years after her death, at which time it was met with stunning success. Perri Klass, MD is a pediatrician who writes fiction and non-fiction covering a range of topics including children and families, medicine, food and travel, and knitting. The pieces for this chat as well as the accompanying discussion questions were curated by Anoushka Sinha, MD ( were honored that Perri Klass, MD ( could join as a special guest for this discussion. “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” was paired with the poem “ The Hope I Know” by Thomas Centolella for a #MedHumChat discussion on exploring Maintaining Hope. But perhaps this poem can teach us to try to let go, to take hope as a given and see what happens if we let it there maybe something almost whimsical-the feathers, the perching, the crumb-to suggest that hope comes and sustains you not according to any logic that you can plan-or necessarily sustain-especially in this #MedHumChat My hope needs agree that fostering hope takes a lot of emotional energy, especially now. I aspire to this kind of hope but find, especially these days, that it takes every effort to sustain. “On a second read I really like the lines "And sore must be the storm/That could abash the little bird." Reminds us that extinguishing hope is a tragedy with real consequences, and shows us how protective hope really can hope faces every extremity without need: it asks for neither food nor tenderness but can weather and sing through every storm. What do these poems reveal about how we find and maintain hope through difficult times? How does Centolella’s hope contrast with Dickinson’s? How do you interpret these lines, and do they reflect your own conception of hope? What strikes you about Emily’s Dickinson’s representation of hope?ĭickinson’s hope “never - in Extremity” asks a “crumb” of her.
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