What is the tone in "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson?

With tone meaning the speaker's attitude toward
the subject, the emotional coloring or meaning of a
poem, the reader must consider the homiletic style that Dickinson uses in her
poem "Hope is the Thing with Feathers."  For, like the Psalms and religious hymns, there
is a reverential and uplifting tone to this verse:

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Hope is the thing with
feathers

That perches in the
soul

And sings the tune without the
words

And never stops at
all.

Thwn, too, there is
something of the divine in this hope with feathers that rests within the soul--a
reassuring thought, indeed, and reverential as it can withstand the storm, a storm that
"must be sore" if it can "abash the little bird."  Hope, "the thing with
feathers,"-stands above the storm that attempts to damage.  This hope abounds "in the
chillest land" and "on the strangest sea" without demanding anything.  It gives
strength; it lifts the spirits with wings.  The reader is reassured that hope gives
without asking, for

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...never in
extremity

It asked a crumb of
me.