Arrange the following American poets in order of their birth – A. Emily Dickinson B. Ralph Waldo…
Emerson was born in 1803, Thoreau in 1817, Whitman in 1819, Dickinson in 1830 and Frost in 1874. Their birth order is B, D, E, A, C. The alternative arrangements confuse…
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Arrange the following American poets in order of their birth –
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert Frost
D. Henry David Thoreau
E. Walt Whitman
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert Frost
D. Henry David Thoreau
E. Walt Whitman
Answer and explanation
Correct answer A
Emerson was born in 1803, Thoreau in 1817, Whitman in 1819, Dickinson in 1830 and Frost in 1874. Their birth order is B, D, E, A, C. The alternative arrangements confuse writers’ later literary prominence with chronological birth order or move the much later Frost ahead of nineteenth-century predecessors.
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