Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Question 1

How are the speakers of "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" similar?

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C: Both are forthright and confident.

Question 2

How does the first-person point of view in both "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" help communicate the ideas presented in the poems?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: It makes the experiences and feelings described easier to sympathize with.

Question 3

Read the lines from "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."We paused before a House that seemedA Swelling of the Ground –What image does the language in these lines create?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: The language creates an image of starkness and isolation.

Question 4

How do the settings of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" differ?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: Traveling in the former represents a journey toward death, while the setting of the latter shows that the speaker is well grounded.

Question 5

Read the quotation from "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."The Carriage held but just Ourselves –And Immortality.What is the effect of the phrase “but just Ourselves” in the lines above?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: It conveys the personal nature of the speaker’s journey.

Question 6

Read the first stanza of "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church."Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –I keep it, staying at Home –With a Bobolink for a Chorister –And an Orchard, for a Dome –What does the use of the words “orchard” and “dome” suggest?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: that the speaker is able to see and feel her faith in everything that surrounds her

Question 7

Which statement best describes the purpose of the horse-drawn carriage imagery in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: The imagery introduces the idea that death is a natural and ordinary part of one’s journey through life.

Question 8

What does the first stanza of "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" suggest about the speaker’s view of religious customs?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: She participates in religious customs in an unconventional way.

Question 9

Read the lines from "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."And I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility –What is the purpose of the words “labor” and “leisure”?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: They are aspects of life that the speaker is leaving.

Question 10

In "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church," why does the speaker say that she has “an Orchard, for a Dome” in the first stanza?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: She is suggesting that nature can serve the same purpose as a church.

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