Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Hope 2
Hope 2
these other moods, is personified here with a capital letter – to come and brighten his outlook.
In this poem, the author of Wuthering Heights, like Keats above, personifies Hope, but here she
is a false friend, who only seems to be interested in being with the poet if her ‘fate’ is a good
one. Unlike Keats’s poem, then, Emily Brontë reflects the idea that hope is so hard to find when
we are at our lowest ebb, and this is precisely when we most need it.