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Comparing Mccarthy And Emily Dickinson

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Hope and humanity must have a symbiotic relationship in order to survive. Both McCarthy and Dickinson reveal their understanding of hope through their literature. The authors portray hope in two different ways. In both pieces of literature hope is overlooking all the negativity in their life seeking a better day than the one before. Emily Dickinson believed that there wasn’t a fight necessary to keep hope alive. Dickinson wrote the poem “XXXII”, which portrays hope as a soft fragile bird who never loses hope even when it has been abashed. Emily Dickinson was an American poet who was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily was not an outgoing or social type of person. The loss and death of her loved ones impacted Dickinson in a huge manor. There was nothing more to help than to write poems expressing thoughts and feelings. In contrast to Dickinson, Cormac McCarthy believes they must feed hope in order to keep it alive. As pictured in the novel, The Road, a boy and a father are fighting to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic world. Hope being the son and humanity being the father. The father must nurture the boy to keep him alive, in the end hope …show more content…

According to Dickinson hope will always be there no matter what, even in their weakest points in life they will not lose hope. According to McCarthy there must be someone feeding hope in order to keep hope alive, hope is depending on someone to take care of it. Hope will be there but there must be someone motivating them. It is important to understand that hope can mean various different things. Hope for one author is different to another because it depends on what they have gone through in their past. McCarthy and Dickinson both paint a huge image of hope and humanity because they have been through many tough obstacles to be where they are

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