What does the first stanza of "some keep the sabbath going to church" suggest about the speaker’s view of religious customs? she does not believe in creating religious customs. she participates in religious customs in an unconventional way. she finds religious customs to be tedious. she participates only in religious customs that relate to nature.

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

Let’s look at the first stanza:

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 –

The first line of the stanza tells readers how some participate in the Sabbath by doing the traditional thing of going to Church (we can assume on Sunday mornings).  However, the poem proceeds by her telling us that she does not go to Church—she stays home as she keeps the Sabbath.  In fact, instead of a traditional choir, she has the song of a bird called a Bobolink.  And, instead of sitting underneath a Church dome, she sits underneath the trees of an orchard.  As such, it can be determined that she, indeed, keeps the Sabbath; however, she does so in her own way which goes against convention.

She participates in religious customs in an unconventional way. This is the correct answer.

EXPLANATION

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was purely born in Amherst, Massachusetts December 10, 1830, which made her an American poet. Dickinson produced over 1500 poems during her lifetime even though only fewer than a dozen of her work actually published during her lifetime. Dickinson’s unusual style of writing poems, combining short lines, with most usually lacked titles and extensive use of slant rhyme, with heavy usage of unconventional capitalization and punctuation.  

Though most of Dickinson’s works remain unpublished during her lifetime, her death in 1886 gave an opportunity to her sister, Lavinia to find her cache of poems, exposing her complete work to the public for the first time.

After Emily Dickinson’s death in 1886, Lavinia Dickinson burnt most of the poet’s correspondence as she promised before. Oddly enough, Emily didn’t say anything about as many as loose sheets and forty notebooks in a locked chest, which Lavinia became obsessed with seeing the works being published, recognizing the poems’ worth.  

Dickinson’s first volume of work, titled Poems edited jointly by T.W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd were produced as early as November 1890. There’s a feud between the house of Todd and Dickinson’s, making it hard to publish a complete set of Emily Dickinson’s for more than half a century. The first edition of her poems was a critical and financial success, continuing through eleven printings in two years. Poems: Second Series and Poems: Third Series was met with almost the same fate.

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Statement about poetry:

KEYWORD: Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church, religious, customs, Emily Dickinson  

Subject: English

Class: 10-12

Subchapter: Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church

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