Question

How are the speakers of "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church"

and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" similar?
A. Both fear disapproval by others.
B. Both seem angry and tormented.
C. Both are forthright and confident.
D. Both reject religious feelings.

Answer 1

C. Both are forthright and confident.

Step-by-step explanation:

Emily Dickinson's poems "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" are poems that reflect the poet's real feelings towards things or issues that are accepted to be normal behavior or accepted norms.

But in expressing her own take on both issues, be it attending church as a show of one's religiousness, or death, Dickinson asserts her own beliefs and opinions against the 'normal'. And in both poems, she is forthright and confident in what she believes and shows.

Thus, the correct answer is option C.