Thursday, February 14, 2013

Analyze the first two stanzas of "Hope".

The first two stanzas provide meaning for hope by
illustrating various locations and actions where hope may be found. When hope hovers in
dark corners, it is presumably hoping for light. When hope is asleep, it will soon be
awake. When it is locked into dandelion heads, Nature itself allows it to burst forth to
carry abroad the seed of new growth. Essentially, hope is seen as both omnipresent and
ubiquitous, and it is both figuratively and literally identical with existence itself.
To adapt words by Thomas Jefferson, just as human beings have been given the inseparable
gifts of life and liberty, so have we also been given the gift of hope, and none of
these gifts can be separated.

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