A World written from the looking glass of Emily Dickinson’s soul By: Deanna Reed I dwell in Possibility- A fairer House than Prose- More numerous of Windows- Superior- for- Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars – Impregnable of eye- And for an Everlasting roof- T Gambrels of the Sky- Of Visitors- the fairest- For Occupation- This- The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise- A sheltered New England writer, Emily Dickinson created much thought …showed first 75 words of 7467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 7467 total…the poetess to be highly skilled in the use of humor and irony. The use of these two tools in her poems is to stress a point or idea the poetess is trying to express, rather than being an end in themselves. These two tools allow her to present serious critiques of her society and the place she feels she has been allocated into by masking her concerns in a light-hearted, irreverent tone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**