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What type of figurative language is used throughout "I dwell in possibility"

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The whole poem is arguably a metaphor that illustrates the similarities between a home and poetry. : ) There are many other examples of figurative languge in this poem but the focus point should be the metaphor.

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The correct answer is the following: The metaphor is the type of figurative language used throughout "I dwell in possibility". The poem, written by American author Emily Dickinson, talks about the author's vocation as a poet. Which she compares, through the use of metaphor, to a house.

She describes poetry as "open and limitless" and more "beautiful" than the contained and limited prose. She uses figurative language as a way to describe the power that she gained by poetry.

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