I Dwell in Possibility
Dickinson’s ars poetica: poetry as a house of infinite rooms, open to visitors and crowned by the gambrels of the sky.
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Dickinson’s ars poetica: poetry as a house of infinite rooms, open to visitors and crowned by the gambrels of the sky.
Death is polite, the ride is unhurried, and the speaker has been dead for centuries by the time she tells the story. Dickinson’s most famous poem is calmer than it has any right to be.
Shelley’s elegy for Keats rises from lament to luminous consolation — art and memory outlasting rumor and death.