Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in possibility"

Emily Dickinson's “I dwell in possibility”, is a poem that makes the point of a poem about the mechanics of poetry. In the second line, she states the words, a fairer House than Prose, where prose is the word used in poetry to describe the ordinary form of language without a poetic structure. This line symbolizes the context of the poem where a House of Possibility is open to numerous ideas rather than one system. Dickinson uses dashes in practically every line except the 7th and 11th in order to connect and distinguish between the various words she utilized. I believe this poem speaks about a certain freedom, where this House of Possibility is connected to the windows and doors, as a sign of different perceptions to the outside world with fewer constrictions than a House of Prose. As the poem progresses, the lines expand on the idea of possibility, using an everlasting roof and spreading wide my narrow hands. In my interpretation, this poem seems to show a longing for a vast imagination without bounds, freedom beyond a given space, and to grasp a perfect place in ones own vision. The last set of lines also uses dashes to connect back to the House of Possibility, where visitors is the main benefit for possibility in which this helps one to reach out into the world for happiness. With the use of dashes, Dickinson is able to couple lines together for comparison as her main tool of expressing the theme behind this poem. The dashes at the end of lines signify the transition to the next while the 7th and 11th line neglect dashes showing the two lines going hand in hand. While this is one of countless Emily Dickinson poems, she wrote this one clearly to impress upon the reader the yearning to break free from tradition and into a self-made idea through the power of endless possibility.