Hope is the Thing with Feathers

To what is Dickinson comparing hope? Why are the connotations of the word bird appropriate for the concept of hope?

From "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson.

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Dickinson is comparing hope to a bird.... free and sweet..... and never without a song.

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