“Hope” is the thing with feathers

We’ve all hoped before, whether it’s to pass a test or to accomplish greater things. I think the poet used “hope” because it is that feeling that entwines our stomach. It appears with tons of anxiety and then subsides soothingly.  Hope is used with feathers because it is that feeling that associates itself with something spontaneous, it is something that aids the spread of the wings. Hope gives us the encouragement.

A moment where I think Jane had a similar encounter was in chapter 10 when she cried with agony, that she wanted a new servitude. Although it would not have been liberation or exciting, she would still be free of Lowood. After spending eight years of her life in a school, she longed to know what existed behind the walls. She wanted her freedom, she wanted to accomplish things. She knew she could not ask for a lot, but she wanted a change, she wanted to see new faces and a new agenda. Lowood wasn’t what it used to be and it was no longer her place of tranquility. Then she did an ad to become a governess and the beginning of her new chapter began.

-D.Ramratan