Emily Dickinson

In her lifetime Emily Dickinson led a secluded and quiet life but her poetry reveals her great inner spontaneity and creativity. The poetry of Emily Dickinson is not easily categorized as Emily uses forms such as rhyme and meter in unconventional ways. However her poetry lucidly expresses thought provoking themes with a style that is delightful to read. Today her poetry is rightly appreciated for its immense depth and unique style and Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of the greatest female poets.

Hope is the thing with feathers

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!

They'd banish us; you know!

How dreary to be somebody!

How public like a frog

To tell one's name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!