Hope is the thing with feathers

The first volume of her work was published posthumously in and the last in She died in Amherst in Upon her death, Dickinson's family discovered forty handbound volumes of nearly 1, poems, or "fascicles" as they are sometimes called. Dickinson assembled these booklets by folding and sewing five or six sheets of stationery paper and copying what seem to be final versions of poems.

The handwritten poems show a variety of dash-like marks of various sizes and directions some are even vertical. The poems were initially unbound and published according to the aesthetics of her many early editors, who removed her unusual and varied dashes, replacing them with traditional punctuation.

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The current standard version of her poems replaces her dashes with an en-dash, which is a closer typographical approximation to her intention. The original order of the poems was not restored until , when Ralph W. Franklin used the physical evidence of the paper itself to restore her intended order, relying on smudge marks, needle punctures, and other clues to reassemble the packets.

Since then, many critics have argued that there is a thematic unity in these small collections, rather than their order being simply chronological or convenient. Poems of a Lifetime Little, Brown, Poems: Third Series Roberts Brothers, Poems: Emily Dickinson Face to Face: A decade ago, in an undergraduate English class, I learned to love poetry.

At that moment, I realized, ah, this is poetry.

I have loved Dickinson ever since. During a course in graduate school, I read every single one of her 1, poems, making grand exclamations of tattoos I would get with her verses and gobbling up every dash and odd capitalization. I never got a Dickinson tattoo. And yet, The Poems of Emily Dickinson still calls to me from the shelf. Dickinson realizes that hope shifts and flutters and changes within you. Five years ago, I moved to San Francisco and, in a nutshell, it was a bad fit.

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Even though my career as a copywriter thrived and my apartment looked wonderfully, charmingly picturesque, I experienced a constant ebb and flow of unhappiness, an unshakeable feeling that I had gotten off at the wrong exit. And so, every year, little by little, my husband and I made plans to move to Portland.



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And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard — And sore must be the storm — That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm —. And hope can withstand just about anything: And hope never asks for anything from us in return.

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It provides comfort and solace but does not require anything back. The analogy must instead unfold and develop gradually.



The result is a fine Dickinson poem which deserves to be better known. You might also like these classic poems about birds. I know it by heart because I had to discuss it several time during my career as an English tutor and my very short stint as an English teacher.