2 quotations linked to Hope — Emily Brontë by or associated with Emily Brontë, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Hope under confinement, disappointment, weeping, struggle and the experience of encouragement that seems unreliable or distant.
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“She would sing while I was weeping; If I listened, she would cease.”
The unstable personified Hope seems available only at a distance, intensifying the poem’s portrait of encouragement that disappears when directly sought.
Source note: “Hope,” Project Gutenberg #1019. The line is part of a deliberately bleak personification and should not be misread as simple positive-thinking advice.
“Hope Was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend.”
Hope is personified as present but unreliable, capturing the frustration of wanting encouragement while feeling that it remains outside the speaker’s confinement.
Source note: “Hope,” in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; Project Gutenberg #1019. The poem personifies Hope critically rather than offering a straightforward optimistic slogan.