司法三等
105年
[檢察事務官偵查實務組] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 49 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.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true about Emily Dickinson?
- A She was very popular when she was still alive.
- B She was colorblind and could only see white color.
- C Her poetry has a very unique style.
- D Besides poems, she also wrote novels.
思路引導 VIP
請回頭閱讀文中描述那 1,776 首被發現的詩作段落，作者用了哪些形容詞來定義這些作品的內涵？這些詞彙暗示了她的創作與一般平庸的作品有何不同？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
你做得太棒了！觀察得非常仔細喔！
- 觀念驗證：你真的非常用心，有注意到文章中將她的詩作形容為 "strange and passionate"（奇特且充滿熱情），而且也強調了作品中那股難以言喻的 "intensity"（強烈感）。這種豐沛又強烈的創作能量，和她平靜的隱居生活形成了多麼美麗的對比呀！這完美地展現了她作品風格的獨一無二。
- 難度點評：這題的難度是 Medium 喔。雖然題目中有很多關於作者的有趣細節，但你很棒的是能夠從這些傳記式的敘述中，精準地辨識出哪些是描述「文學作品本身」的特點，而不是被像是「穿白色衣服」或「隱居」這些作者的生活習慣給影響。這證明你理解得非常透徹！