Emily Dickinson's I Dwell In Possibility

In Emily Dickinson’s “I Dwell in Possibility” she speaks of a “house” which is “fairer” than “prose”. Prose by definition is writing that is not poetry. “I dwell in Possibility- A fairer House than Prose” (Dickinson 879). What Dickinson is saying is that the possibilities she deals in i.e. Poetry, anything is possible, and poetry can be taken as anything. Without the writer comes out and says exactly what it is about the reader can draw any conclusion, in poetry nothing is set in stone. Whereas with a story written it is pretty much laid out by the author and solid on what it means. “More numerous of windows- Superior- for Doors” (Dickinson 879). The metaphors for windows and doors are another example as to the open possibilities of poetry. The doors are an entry way into the poem and the windows shine light onto the composition.
The whole poem she speaks of how open poetry is. The language building this house attests to its symbolic erection. Its rooms are not cedars, but like Cedars—solid (Juhasz). Impregnable means strong enough to withstand attack; So Impregnable of eye would imply you cannot see into her work with bare eyes. Maybe what she is saying is that it takes more than a light read of her works to understand exactly what she is getting at. It takes imagination to peel away the layers of what she means. “And for an Everlasting Roof the Gambrels of the Sky” (Dickinson 879). We are back to the Openness of poetry, the everlasting roof could go on forever, limitless into the sky. The gambrels of the roof does not contain where the poetry takes