Tim Woodcock writes: Last week Nancy Quigley offered a poem called “What is Hope?” That prompted me to dig around in the Poetry Foundation’s themed collections of poems, anticipating there would be a section of other poems about hope. There was indeed, although it’s actually labeled “ Poems of Hope and Resilience .” It’s well worth a look. Some of the poems are very well known. For instance, Emily Dickinson’s Poem No. 314, with the line “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers” and Maya Angelou’s widely quoted and inspirational “And Still I Rise.” Among the 50+ poems there are some poems that are – by my lights – incomprehensible or willfully obscure but there’s far greater number of gems, some of which I thought I’d share in an attempt to answer the question, “What is Hope?” In this blog post I’m going to focus on one poem only, but I plan to return to the theme later on highlighting a couple more poems. The poem that initially caught my eye was the astonishingly powerful “ Lift Every V...