EMILY DICKINSON

1. What comes “after great pain” in the famous Emily Dickinson poem ?

1. The letting go

 2. A concrete simplicity

 3. Substantial light

 4. A formal feeling

ANSWER:4

2. The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself reads

(1) The List is done

 (2) Redemption – Brittle Lady

 (3) Judge tenderly – of Me

 (4) Called Back

ANSWER:4

3. We are likely to misunderstand an Emily Dickinson poem if we take her famous dashes to be … (A) Quite specific and unambiguous

(B) Ambiguous and indeterminate

(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward movements in terms of sense

 (D) Suggestive of links but equivocally

ANSWER:A

4. Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her contemporary American poet,

 (1) Anne Bradstreet

(2) Robert Lowell

 (3) Walt Whitman

(4) Sylvia Plath

ANSWER:3

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