Critic: Emily Dickinson's poetry demonstrates that meaning cannot reside entirely within a poem itself, but is always the unique result of an interaction between a reader's system of beliefs and the poem; and, of course, any two readers from different cultures or eras have radically different systems of beliefs.
Emily Dickinson’s poetry demonstrates that meaning is not derived entirely from a poem itself, but that meaning is the unique result of the interaction between a poem and a reader’s beliefs. Any two readers from different cultures or time periods have radically different beliefs.
For a Must Be False question, the four wrong answers will be things that could be true based on the stimulus. The correct answer will be something that contradicts what must be true.
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