Hope is the thing with feathers Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory

Have you ever seen that movie About a Boy? Well, if this poem were turned into a movie, it would be called About a Bird. The entire poem is built on an extended metaphor that compares hope to a lit...

This poem is not all hope-songs and tweety birds. In an odd way, things have to head pretty far south in life before hope really starts to matter to you. And that, folks, is where the storm imagery...