Essay Notes

"Hope Is The Thing With Feathers," Emily Dickinson

Repetition of the bird- puts emphasis on the bird
"thing with feathers"
"perches in the soul"
"could abash the little bird"
"sing a tune"- meaning the birds song

Consonance
repetition of the th sound

Rhyme Scheme- lines goes 8,6,8,6

This creates more harmony in the poem, which relates back to the repetition of the bird. The bird is considered to harmonious and "hopeful," by repeating the th sound the poem can be read more fluently.

The repetition of the bird gets the poems emotion across.
Bird is a symbol of hope.
Ambiguous
People can interpret hope in their own way.

Pattern was aimed at the heart and the ear


"My Father and The Fig Tree."- Naomi Shihab Nai

• Repetition of  largest, fattest sweetest fig and on the fig tree
• this is a description of the fig
• this is the best kind of fig
• gift from Allah
• Fig symbolizes arab culture
• draws emphasis to the importance of the fig tree
• Relates back to the Arab culture
• the relationship between the father to the arab culture
• there are 4 stanzas, the word fig is repeated constantly 
• pattern aimed at the heart and the mind
• relationship
• tone of the poem= loss?