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23 Sep 2025, 00:29
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Please guide me for this question, I was confused between A and D, somehow answer came as B.
16 Dec 2025, 19:43
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Johnson is on firm ground when he asserts that the early editors of Dickinson’s poetry often distorted her intentions. Yet Johnson’s own, more faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of distortion. To standardize Dickinson’s often indecipherable handwritten punctuation by the use of the dash is to render permanent a casual mode of poetic phrasing that Dickinson surely never expected to see in print. It implies that Dickinson chose the dash as her typical mark of punctuation when, in fact, she apparently never made any definitive choice at all.
Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main point?
A) Although Johnson is right in criticizing Dickinson’s early editors for their distortion of her work, his own text is guilty of equally serious distortions.
The author never states that Johnson’s texts equally distort Dickinson’s work.
B) Johnson’s use of the dash in his text of Dickinson’s poetry misleads readers about the poet’s intentions. Correct
C) Because Dickinson never expected her poetry to be published, virtually any attempt at editing it must run counter to her intentions.
The text is more focused on the limitations of Johnson’s texts than on Dickinson’s intentions or the possibility to adequately edit his work.
D) Although Johnson’s attempt to produce a more faithful text of Dickinson’s poetry is well-meaning, his study of the material lacks sufficient thoroughness.
The author does not say anything about the thoroughness of Johnson’s study of the material.
E) Dickinson’s editors, including Johnson, have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson’s handwritten manuscripts
The author says that editors often distorted Dickinson’s intentions. However, he does not say whether these editors managed to decipher adequately Dickinson’s manuscripts or not.
Another reason to discard this option could be that both editors and Johnson had a problem to decipher Dickinson’s punctuation, not manuscripts. Here, however, we could argue whether the concept “punctuation” is part of a broader concept “manuscripts”.
Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main point?
A) Although Johnson is right in criticizing Dickinson’s early editors for their distortion of her work, his own text is guilty of equally serious distortions.
The author never states that Johnson’s texts equally distort Dickinson’s work.
B) Johnson’s use of the dash in his text of Dickinson’s poetry misleads readers about the poet’s intentions. Correct
C) Because Dickinson never expected her poetry to be published, virtually any attempt at editing it must run counter to her intentions.
The text is more focused on the limitations of Johnson’s texts than on Dickinson’s intentions or the possibility to adequately edit his work.
D) Although Johnson’s attempt to produce a more faithful text of Dickinson’s poetry is well-meaning, his study of the material lacks sufficient thoroughness.
The author does not say anything about the thoroughness of Johnson’s study of the material.
E) Dickinson’s editors, including Johnson, have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson’s handwritten manuscripts
The author says that editors often distorted Dickinson’s intentions. However, he does not say whether these editors managed to decipher adequately Dickinson’s manuscripts or not.
Another reason to discard this option could be that both editors and Johnson had a problem to decipher Dickinson’s punctuation, not manuscripts. Here, however, we could argue whether the concept “punctuation” is part of a broader concept “manuscripts”.
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