PrepTest 30, Section 3, Question 7
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.
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.
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.
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.
If the critic's statements are true, each of the following could be true EXCEPT:
A reader's interpretation of a poem by Dickinson is affected by someone else's interpretation of it.
A modern reader and a nineteenth-century reader interpret one of Shakespeare's sonnets in the same way.
A reader's interpretation of a poem evolves over time.
Two readers from the same era arrive at different interpretations of the same poem.
A reader's enjoyment of a poem is enhanced by knowing the poet's interpretation of it.
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