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Poem · 1846

Hope

Emily Brontë

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Poem · 1846 · English · Victorian

Hope

Emily Brontë

Hope is imagined as a timid companion that withdraws in suffering.

LyricAllegoryHopeAbandonmentDespair

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How to read it

Personification reverses the conventional consoling virtue. Its failure to stay makes emotional abandonment visible without resolving it into a moral lesson.

Whole-work summary

Hope is imagined as a timid companion that withdraws in suffering.

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