ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

POETRY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
A
She rarely left home
B
She wrote in code
C
She never attempted to publish her poetry
D
She wrote her poems in invisible ink
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Emily was considered strange by the residents of her hometown as she took to wearing white clothing much of the time, and also for her reclusive nature. She eventually refused to come downstairs to greet her guests and sometimes would only hold conversations through the closed door of her bedroom.

Detailed explanation-2: -After her first and only trip outside of her home state of Massachusetts, Emily thereafter remained in her father’s house for the rest of her life to care for her sick mother.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dickinson truly invented a unique style with her poetry that disregarded many common literary rules. She experimented with capitalization and allowed sentences to run on. Her work was inspired by the rhythmic devices of religious psalms, but she commonly interspersed her own creative pauses within the stanzas.

Detailed explanation-4: -She wrote nearly 1, 800 poems in her lifetime. Yet, only a dozen or so were published in her life time. People thought that she only wore white. Her poems were canonised by her brother’s mistress. She didn’t die from kidney disease. 12-Dec-2018

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