According to Emily Dickinson archive website, “I Dwell in Possibility” was written in 1862, the romantic era, the time when women were unequal to men, when the society was led by patriarchally manners. Similarly, Charlotte Brontë’s work “Jane Eyre” was written in 1847 where Brontë’ was affected by the same family and society structures.

In Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Dwell in Possibility” it talks about freedom and liberation. When she mentions in the first stanza “More numerous of Windows- Superior – of Doors-.” Dickinson mentions these things because she feels that through poetry she will be able to express her necessity of equality and freedom. Likewise, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is also written with a motif about liberty and how to get out of the squared and locking society. Jane Eyre was reminding how locked and chained she felt when she lived with her aunt. In addition, Jane was also mentioning her sense of gender equality where she said, “women feel just as men feel…”(P. 130) In the second stanza Dickinson continues mentioning the nature in her poem, how the sky is the roof over our head. “And for an everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky –” One of the motifs of the romantic era is the sense of sublime. Likewise, Brontë’s repetition of the sublime, is by describing the terrifying beauty of the nature and endless spaces.”…represented clouds low and livid, rolling over a swollen sea: all the distance was in eclipse.” Lastly both Dickinson and Jane Eyre have the ability to create. While Dickinson mentions in the last stanza how she has the ability to create, “…spreading wide my narrow Hands- To gather Paradise-”, Eyre is also a creator, she is a painter. Furthermore, while Dickinson feels that she is sent by God, by writing these poems, Mr Rochester describes himself as the sinner and Eyre as the pure and clean. “…your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory…without blot or contamination… exquisite treasure – inexhaustible source of pure refreshment” (P. 158-159)

To summarize we can see Dickinson writes about freedom and liberation, the nature and its endless terrifying beauty, and her ability to create as God’s messenger, almost an angel. Similarly we see that Jane Eyre is always striving for freedom and liberation, but ends up getting married to Mr. Rochester, she is also describing the untouchable beauty of the nature, yet turns to be a housewife, and lastly, while she was a sinless person, she becomes contaminated because she marries Mr. Rochester.