In the poem “Hope’ is the thing with feathers” Dickenson describes beautifully the feeling of being hopeful. She compares hope to birds which in this case are the “thing with feathers”. I believe, the reason why she chose to compare hope to birds its because birds are free creatures that wonder in the sky freely and continuously. The same way as hope stays in our souls all the time and we cannot have control of it. Even when we say that “we lost hope” its just a word of mouth because we can never really lose hope.

Dickenson is basically trying to say that hope stays and lives within us till the end of our journey in this life. It can be found in the strangest places and in the most so called “hopeless people” because its is something that we have no control over. We are just born with hope and we carry it with us through our whole lives.

There is always something to hope about in life. Its a feeling that keeps our soul warm and that pushes us to go forward and have faith that tomorrow its going to be a better day.

Dickenson’s poem connects with Jane Eyre because everything about Jane is connected to hope. Jane hopes that one day men and women will be treated equally, she has faith in God, she wishes that people will not judge each other from their social class, she hopes that Mr. Rochelle will accept her for who she is, she hopes that her dreams and goals will be accomplished etc. The main idea is that both works are based on hope. Jane’s situation is different but when you analyze throughly her state of mind she is just a hopeful girl trying to fit in and trying to be accepted by the people surrounding her.