Rockin’ Robin
Birds, No Bees
Our Feathered Friends
Published in
Feb 2, 2024
Emily Dickinson’s “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers” uses a bird as a metaphor for the hope that lives within our soul. Woody Allen titled one of his books Without Feathers. He was obviously referring to Dickinson’s poem to signal an ironic absence of hope in his stories.
“All the little birdies on Jaybird Street / Love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet”
— — “Rockin’ Robin” by Bobby Day
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