Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Seventh Reading

Emily Dickinson- Hope
1st reading: comparing hope to a bird.. it rests inside of you and can be found where ever you go...  never in extremity?...

extremity: the extreme or terminal point, limit, or part of something.
2.
a limb of the body.
3.
Usually, extremities. the end part of a limb, as a hand or foot:to experience cold in one's extremities.
4.
Often, extremities. a condition or circumstance ofextreme need, distress, etc.: to suffer the extremities of being poor.
5.
the utmost or any extreme degree: the extremity of joy.


2nd reading: personification- hope being a bird able to sing..  hope doesn't ask of you but is always there?

3rd reading: hope keeps us 'warm' in our own 'storms'..  we don't need words to have hope, it is more of general feeling rather than saying

4th reading:  we  always have hope no matter what circumstance

5th reading: uses a lot of 'ands'... not very rhyming but has a certain flow or meter

6th reading: connotation of crumb, smallest, insignificant... but in context, it works well with the bird metaphor

7th reading:  sweetest connotation... most needed/ good rather than taste itself...

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