Within each of these poems, Emily Brontë intimately negotiates the boundary between complete despair and a bittersweet sense of hope, paradoxically bringing the reader to the conclusion that the two are one in the same. In this setting of the texts, the focus is less on the words themselves, and more on the emotional complexities of the poems— each one with a unique sound world to accompany the varying degrees of darkness and dissonance within the text.