In the gale, it is the sweetest which means that when there are minor challenges ahead, hope is so soothing and empowering. Words represent the actual method or process of how you’ll succeed, but the hope is just the feeling of getting over the difficulties. Hope just makes you believe that you will. There is no blueprint for why you’ll succeed. What does this mean? Hope is not a plan or strategy. Hope sits somewhere deeper, somewhere we cannot locate. Remember that hope is not a thought and it never comes to your brain, because then it would be rejected by the worries and uncertainties. Hope is like a bird that sits nowhere but the soul. While with one quick read, one can understand what Dickinson is trying to convey, it is the detailed reading that brings the poem to its true shining form. Hope is compared to a bird that sings sweet tunes. There is metaphorical magic in the poem, created by the magical use of metaphors.
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