Wonder Wednesday

Emily Dickinson's Dictionary, Part 2

Hello, friends.

As promised, today we’re taking a closer look at “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.”

Approximately a fifth of Dickinson's poems are what scholars call “definition poems,” poems that provide a figurative definition to an ineffable subject such as faith, grief, or hope. As Sharon Cameron writes in “Choosing Not Choosing: Dickinson's Facsimi…