The following poem is an example of an extended metaphor. An extended metaphor is the same as a normal metaphor, it's just longer and a comparison that is used for many sentences or a situation. After reading the poem, please answer the following questions: 1. What is the metaphor?

2. What is the purpose of the metaphor? How does it help the reader understand what the speaker is saying?

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune - without words,

And never stops at all,

And the sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chilliest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.