Hope is the Thing with Feathers

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What is the figurative language as it is used in the following line I've heard it in the chillest land.

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Chillest in Dickinson's day actually meant cold. It soulds like she means laid back as in "chill" in Hawaii but it means cold like in the Yukon so she is saying, I've heard in the coldest land.

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