I dwell in Possibility Themes

"I dwell in Possibility—" can be read as a valentine to poetry itself. To the speaker, poetry isn't just a passel of pretty words: it's a way for us lowly human beings to reach out and touch the...

Emily grew up in a Bible thumping family, so it's no shocker that many of her poems are loaded with religious themes. And those religious themes are almost always a source of awe and amazement for...

Emily Dickinson's poetry is chock full of nature imagery, and this one is no different. Here, she uses images from the natural world to represent openness and possibility. She shows nature as somet...