Question

5.

What does the last stanza suggest about the speaker's point of view regarding hope?
The speaker has experienced some troubled times but is now in a much better
place.
The speaker thinks of hope as the only source of comfort in his/her life, even
more than food (i.e. the "crumb").
The speaker thinks hope is helpful, but only to a certain point.
The speaker, having experienced adversity, regards hope in a positive light, as it
never asked anything of him/her.

Answer 1

d

Step-by-step explanation:

d

Answer 2

D. The speaker, having experienced adversity, regards hope in a positive light, as it

never asked anything of him/her

Step-by-step explanation:

This question refers to Emily Dickinson's poem "Hope Is The Thing With Feathers".

In the poem, the author uses metaphor, or, more precisely, extended metaphor to compare hope to a bird. Sweet singing of the bird can be heard even in the biggest storms which suggests that hope is always there, even in the hardest periods in life.

The last stanza tells us that the bird can be seen everywhere (the chilliest land and the strangest see) but it (the bird) never asks for anything of us, not a single crumb.

That means that it's not an effort to hope for something, it doesn't cost us anything, it doesn't make us a problem. One should always hope and the bird will forever sing to us, not asking for anything in return.