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Rhee, Beau La. “Emily Dickinson’s Poetics of Space.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 36.3(2010): 133-149. The border between spaces often collapses in Dickinson’s poetry. Dickinson often complicates time and space, using techniques that reverse the inside out and the upside down. And the reader has to decode the metaphors of reversed time and visualize different perceptions of spaces used in the poems to read her thoughts. In her poem “A Pit – but Heaven over it,” Dickinson enables the reader to visualize the space of the pit by dramatization of thought and stimulation of the senses. “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” and “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –” are poems in which Dickinson experiments with five dimensional space. Furthermore, she often complicates interiority and exteriority. For Dickinson, an interior is not a confinement, and the house imagery she uses often functions as a positive structure. The interior recurrently resembles the exterior in her poetry, as in “I dwell in Possibility.” Doors and windows work as important devices that connect the inner and outer spaces. (University of Rhode Island)