“It Might Be Lonelier” By Emily Dickinson In the poem “It Might Be Lonelier” Emily Dickinson is saying she would rather not love than to love someone and lose them. She starts with the first two stanzas saying, she would be more lonelier with someone than she is by herself, she so accustomed to being on her own. In the rest of the poem she states that another person would take away from her dark …showed first 75 words of 452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 452 total…poem she says hope is futile, in the poem “Hope’ is the thing with feathers, she describes hope as a bird that perches in the soul. It sings beautiful songs and will never be destroyed, even by the strongest storm. Emily died at the age of 55 never being married. One can only wish that in her hour of death, she was happy and full of hope and faith for the next world she was entering.