Emily Dickinson - I dwell in possibility

In literature, dashes are use to form a separation or connection between two thoughts and to indicate that the thought is still unfinished.
In Emily Dickinson’s poem, "I dwell in possibility," she uses all kinds of dash to make the poem more like an endless thread of thoughts. In the poem, I believe the word “possibility” means the imagination world; the mind of a writer (since it mentions prose). Dickinson uses the dash to separate the reality she is living in and the world inside her head. The dash, in line two, precede a different sentence, but still relates to the first sentence, which she describes her imagination as a world where there are endless opportunities. As the poem continues, Dickinson uses the dashes to further relate factors that contribute to her imagination. Such factors is the chamber walls that represent strength that one cannot see the creativity of her ideas with just their eyes and a roof that holds a wild-animal sky that indicates her mind is restless. In the third stanza, she uses the dashes to list those who would want to obtain such a vast imagination and for the purpose of wanting such an imagination. And at the end of the poem, there is a very ambiguous dash. This makes the poem endless and I think that is what Dickinson was aiming for. The poem makes you conclude what will happen next in your own terms of creativity. Furthermore, due to the dashes, I believe the poem centered on the idea of imagination for how there seems to be no periods, commas, etc; nothing but dashes. Dickinson is telling us that we must use our imagination and that there is more than one way to write that is not limited to using periods and commas.