Emily Dickenson analysis

Possibility: 1. "Possibility is Emily Dickinson's synonym for poetry. Its house alone affords sufficient opportunities for observation and for voyages through the perceived vistas" (Weisbuch 1). 2. "'Possibility' is a concept: it is the idea of the imagination itself, where what has not occurred in external reality may be thought of as occurring. 'Possibility' is mental space" (Juhasz, "'I dwell in Possibility'" 105). 3. "This house is 'Possibility,' the imagination. Dwelling there, the lady of the manor makes not …

…is truly to be a dwelling place of possibility. Prose would then correspond to the public realm" (Benfey 28). 2. The Chambers are an "enclosure experienced in the place of the mind, an enclosure that can mean confinement and internal strife . . . . Yet those same windows and doors can as well outline the spaciousness that only the imagination can create, reminding us once again of the power that is derived from the cultivation of consciousness" (Juhasz, Undiscovered Continent 19)