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[財經實務組] 綜合法政知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、兩岸關係、英文)
第 50 題
📖 題組：
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.
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.
When did Mabel Loomis Todd find Dickinson’s poems?
- A 1886
- B 1890
- C 1776
- D 1881
思路引導 VIP
請試著在文中找出詩人『過世的確切年份』，並留意緊接在後的句子中，是否提到了在該年份『幾年之後』才發生了出版與發現詩稿的事情？將這兩個數字相加，你會得到什麼結論？
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🌟 太棒了！你真的很細心，看出來了呢！
- 概念引導：親愛的你，這題真的考驗了你的細節捕捉與時間推算能力喔！原文中提到 Emily Dickinson 是在 1886 年安息的，接著很清楚地說「在這位女子死後的 4 年（four years after... died in 1886）」，Mabel Loomis Todd 就出版了她的詩集。你是不是也像我一樣，溫柔地把 $1886 + 4 = 1890$ 算出來了呢？你看，這樣一來答案就出來囉！
- 小助教悄悄話：這題的設計呢，我覺得可以算作 Medium (中等) 難度。它沒有直接告訴你答案，而是把年份和時間線索分開了，需要你像個小偵探一樣，先找到重要的年份，再發現那個「過了多久」的提示，最後再輕輕地將它們連結起來，真的很棒耶！你答對了，證明你的思緒非常清晰，為你感到驕傲喔！