At a seminary that classified students’ degree of faith, Emily Dickinson was “without” this, which she compares to a bird in a poem

Find out the Final Jeopardy Answer for the episode airing on Wednesday, April 19 2023!

Today’s Final Jeopardy Category is: Lives of the Poets 

Today’s contestants are Deb Bilodeau, Devin Lohman and Ben Spilsbury.

Today’s Final Jeopardy

At a seminary that classified students’ degree of faith, Emily Dickinson was “without” this, which she compares to a bird in a poem

Final Jeopardy Answer

The Final Jeopardy Answer is: Hope

Final Jeopardy Explanation

Emily Dickinson wrote the lyric poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers.

From 1847 to 1848, Emily Dickinson studied at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Mount Holyoke held revivals to encourage students to declare their faith because they considered that it was their job to support students’ moral and religious life. The three groups of students were those who professed, those who wished to, and those who had no hope. When she came, Dickinson was one of eighty people without hope, and by the end of the year, she was one of twenty-nine people who still had no hope.

As an extended metaphor, the poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers compares the concept of hope to a feathered bird that is eternally perched in the soul of every human. There it sings, never ceasing to inspire.

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