The poem “I dwell in Possibility” is using possibility as a synonym for poetry. The fact that possibility also is tied into some necessary privacy, I see a relationship between privacy and poetry. None of Emily Dickinson’s poetry was published with her name until after her death, and her poetry explains her longing for privacy and individuality in her poetry. These two specific poems are examples of why not only her poetry was kept secret, but also her personal life, as portrayed in “I’m nobody! Who are you?”. In another Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Letter to the Universe” there is also a reoccurring theme of solitude and privacy. The line that says, “The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty” means that her poetry was of the things that were obvious in life, sent with love. “Her message is committed To hands I cannot see” is a direct reflection that nature has a message for the world, the place Emily Dickinson excluded herself from.

In The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of Mind, Suzanne Juhasz states that: "Possibility is a concept: it is the idea of the imagination itself, where what has not occurred in external reality may be thought of as occurring". The world of poetry for Dickinson then, as for many Transcendentalists, is the window to the realm of possibility, the realm of the oversoul.