Read the poem. I Dwell In Possibility by Emily Dickinson 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 The Gambrels of the Sky – Of Visitors – the fairest – For Occupation – This – The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise – Question 1 Part A What is a key theme of "I Dwell in Possibility"? Nature is a spiritual teacher.

Paradise is both painful and sweet.

Poetry is superior to other genres of literature.

Pain reveals the deepest truths about life.

Question 2 Part B How does Emily Dickinson develop the theme indicated in Part A?

She compares poetry and prose to two homes, preferring the one with more doors and windows.

Dickinson longs for visitors but has only poetry for company.

She describes paradise as a house with strong windows and thick walls.
Dickinson observes that walls and roofs should be difficult to attack.

PART A: Poetry is superior to other genres of literature.

PART B: She compares poetry and prose to two homes, preferring the one with more doors and windows.

Explanation:

1.02 Quiz: The Power of Poetry 1

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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