Poetry Quiz: Seasons and Poets
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What heavily influenced Emily Dickinson's poetry?

  • Modernist poets of the twentieth century
  • Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England (correct)
  • Victorian novelists
  • Romantic poets of the nineteenth century
  • Which poet's work did Emily Dickinson admire besides that of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

  • John Keats (correct)
  • William Wordsworth
  • John Milton
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Why did Emily Dickinson avoid reading Walt Whitman's poetry during her lifetime?

  • Rumors of its disgracefulness (correct)
  • She did not like free verse poetry
  • She was not interested in contemporary poetry
  • She only read British poets
  • When was the first volume of Emily Dickinson's work published?

    <p>1890</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did Emily Dickinson assemble her poems into booklets known as 'fascicles'?

    <p>Folding and sewing five or six sheets of stationery paper</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What style elements are present in Emily Dickinson's handwritten poems?

    <p>Variety of dash-like marks</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where did Emily Dickinson die?

    <p>Amherst</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Fascicles' referred to in the text are what?

    <p>'Fascicles' of poems</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did Emily's family discover her poems after her death?

    <p>In forty handbound volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of upbringing did Emily Dickinson have that influenced her approach to Christianity?

    <p>Puritan upbringing in a New England town</p> Signup and view all the answers

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