Procrastination is Key...wait, what?

Emily Dickinson has shown some similar themes in her poetry. Dickinson only published about ten poems in her lifetime, all of which anonymously. The style of her poetry is similar in most of her poems, where she uses dashes and unconventional capitalization. Her particular style of writing, vocabulary, and imagination bind together to create a very unique and popular lyric style of poetry. Three of Emily Dickinson’s poems, “I’m nobody! Who are you?”, “I dwell in Possibility”, and “Letter to the Universe” all share the common themes of solitude, privacy, and freedom.
In Emily Dickinson’s poem “I’m nobody! Who are you?” shows an excitement and curiosity towards finding someone who is nobody like her. Dickinson’s choice to only publish her poems anonymously is a direct reflection of her choice to be a nobody. There’s a line in the poem that reads, “Don’t tell! They’d advertise—you know!” (697) which implies that she doesn’t want the publicity in her personal life or her poetry. She compares being “somebody” to being like a frog, which in my opinion are noticed by all people, but never really thought about twice.

In the poem “I dwell in Possibility” Emily Dickinson represents poetry as being something private and personal. She uses possibility as a form of poetry and it’s comparison with Prose, the opposite of poetry. The line that reads: “A fairer House than Prose —More numerous of Windows—“relates to the opportunities and freedom that poetry creates compared to Prose. In this poem I believe that she’s talking about the House of Poetry, which is described as free, open, and creative.