She attempts to continue on with her original nature-based theme, yet makes a decision in the last two lines of the poem. The last few lines bring the poem full-circle, and usurps the attention onto the relationship between the narrator and the bird. The second stanza compares the avian to earth and its many moods. The beginning of the poem entails the spirituality of the bird. Out of the entire poem, the last stanza leaps out unto the eye. In the version that was read for this essay, the use of her trademark dashes was non-existent, replaced by semicolons and commas. Although Dickinson does not rhyme, her poem flows neatly into concise concepts, highlighted with assonance. The structure of the piece is in three, four-lined stanzas. Even though there is only one bird mentioned, several qualities that derive from different species describe the bird from the soft flitting of the wings, to spans that relates to damaging storms. Personified as a bird, Dickinson creates an illusion of freedom in life. One such example is a poem entitled, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers.†However, some of her poetry seems to point to the fact that she may have been an agnostic, one who believes in a higher deity, but not in any particular religious sect. Trumpetfalcon - Unlike her parents, Emily Dickinson was not a religious person.
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