Question

“Fate Slew Him”: ‘She’ in the poem most directly refers to ____________.

Question 13 options:

a)
the Man’s wife

b)
Fate

c)
both answer choices are correct

d)
neither answer choice is correct

Answer 1

it is most likely fate

Answer 2

b). Fate

Step-by-step explanation:

"Fate Slew Him But He Did Not Drop" by Emily Dickinson is a poem of just two four-lined stanzas, portraying a battle between man and fate. She personalizes fate as a woman who consistently attacks the man with harsh blows but the man never relents and in the end emerges victorious. She embodies the various trials and problems that man will have to endure and it is on the man whether to survive or give up.