But why though? The meter isn’t great and neither are the rhymes. Hope does not liyerally have feathers and there is no deeper allegory. Also there is nothing about crumbs or idioms related to crumbs that give good closure. Not to mention that all the weather references are vapid and empty
She is famous, and yet this poem is a trash pile. Can I do better? You know what probably yes.
Of course hope is not literally a thing with feathers, it’s a metaphor comparing hope to song birds.
And the crumbs are a metaphor for feeding the hope. The choice of crumbs here is because people feed birds crumbs.
The weather comparisons are easily seen as comparisons because of the commonality of using weather as a metaphor for emotions and also how people describe events.
As a mentioned before, different strokes for different folks. You may not like it and that’s fine, and I like it which is also fine. Not everything can appeal to everyone.
If you feel you could do better feel free to write poetry and share it with the world. I’m sure you’ll find an audience for your work just as her work found an audience.
![Hope by Emily Dickinson [Rule]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Hope_is_the_thing_with_feathers%2C_1891.jpg){kind=link}
I hope this is not an exemplar of her poetry… I don’t find it to be very good in really any of the ways that poetry CAN be good in my experience.
Unless the only category is “famous” in which case she is definitely winning.
Personally I’m a fan of this poem
Different strokes for different folks really
But why though? The meter isn’t great and neither are the rhymes. Hope does not liyerally have feathers and there is no deeper allegory. Also there is nothing about crumbs or idioms related to crumbs that give good closure. Not to mention that all the weather references are vapid and empty
She is famous, and yet this poem is a trash pile. Can I do better? You know what probably yes.
Of course hope is not literally a thing with feathers, it’s a metaphor comparing hope to song birds.
And the crumbs are a metaphor for feeding the hope. The choice of crumbs here is because people feed birds crumbs.
The weather comparisons are easily seen as comparisons because of the commonality of using weather as a metaphor for emotions and also how people describe events.
As a mentioned before, different strokes for different folks. You may not like it and that’s fine, and I like it which is also fine. Not everything can appeal to everyone.
If you feel you could do better feel free to write poetry and share it with the world. I’m sure you’ll find an audience for your work just as her work found an audience.