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Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Question 8 • (J. Blaum) 0231 10th Grade English 1st 9 Weeks 26-27

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

Answer
A
She does not believe in creating religious customs.
B
She participates in religious customs in an unconventional way.
C
She finds religious customs to be tedious.
D
She participates only in religious customs that relate to nature.

Explanation

The speaker contrasts people who go to church on the Sabbath with her own way of observing it: she stays home and has a bobolink as her choir and an orchard as her church dome. This shows that she participates in a religious custom in an unconventional way, rather than rejecting the Sabbath altogether. The nature imagery describes how she worships, but the main point is her unconventional observance.

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