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In 1881 a young woman named Mabel Loomis Todd wrote her parents about “the character of Amherst…a lady whom
the people call the ‘Myth’: she has not been outside of her own house in fifteen years…. She dresses wholly in white,
and her mind is said to be perfectly wonderful.” So began the legend of Emily Dickinson, one of the greatest poets of
the nineteenth century, who was for years portrayed by biographers and critics as an eccentric recluse, a “little
home-keeping person,”a mad spinster who had been disappointed in love. For, four years after this New England
woman in white died in 1886, the same Mabel Loomis Todd brought out a volume containing selections from 1,776
strange and passionate poems, which had been found, neatly sewed into booklets, in her bureau drawers, and the
imagination of the pubic was immediately seized by the mysterious discrepancy between what seemed to be the
isolation of Dickinson’s life and the intensity of her art. To many, indeed, the “case” of Emily Dickinson-only eight
of whose poems had been published in her lifetime-seemed to offer a crucial model for the situation of the woman
poet. Eccentricity, reclusiveness, and most of all, thwarted romance-these appeared to be the conditions that might
drive a woman to what was, for women, the perversity of writing verses.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true about Emily Dickinson?
AShe was very popular when she was still alive.
BShe was colorblind and could only see white color.
CHer poetry has a very unique style.正確答案
DBesides poems, she also wrote novels.
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