{"id":122,"date":"2010-04-16T09:41:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T09:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/04\/video-hope-is-by-emily-dickinson.html"},"modified":"2010-04-16T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T09:41:47","slug":"video-hope-is-by-emily-dickinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/04\/video-hope-is-by-emily-dickinson.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: Hope Is… by Emily Dickinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The extraordinary thing about Emily Dickinson<\/a> is that she wrote about 1,800 poems during her lifetime, but only a handful were published.  Almost all of her poems were published posthumously, when they were discovered by her sister, and Dickinson was finally regarded as an innovator who introduced a different way of writing poetry.  <\/p>\n

Dickinson didn’t conform to traditional poetry writing styles.  Instead, she used unique punctuation (much like e.e. cummings<\/a>), she used near-perfect rhyme (known as slant rhyme<\/a>), all her poems were untitled, and most of them were also very short. In a way, she was the Coco Chanel of the poetry world.<\/p>\n

Continuing with National Poetry Month<\/a>, here is a video of a Dickinson poem about holding onto hope<\/strong> and never giving up, no matter what comes your way.   <\/p>\n

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Here is the complete text of the poem:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,<\/p>\n

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.<\/p>\n

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What poems do you love? Share them with others in <\/strong>Beliefnet’s Community forum<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite Dickinson poem? Share in the comments area below.<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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