Who wrote A Narrow Fellow In The Grass?

• A. Browning
• B. Dickinson
• C. Hawthorne
• D. McKay

Answer: (B)

This question tests recognizing the author from a poem’s voice and style. The piece’s compact, precise imagery about a “narrow fellow in the grass” points to Emily Dickinson, whose verse often treats nature with quiet, exact observation and uses dashes, unusual capitalization, and short lines to convey subtle emotional shifts. The speaker’s reaction—an almost startled, intimate awareness of a small, unseen danger—fits Dickinson’s way of turning a single, ordinary moment into a deeper meditation on perception and vitality. Dickinson is known for her concise, nature-centered poems and her distinctive formal quirks, which set her apart from other writers mentioned here. Browning is famous for dramatic monologues with longer lines, Hawthorne for prose fiction, and McKay for Harlem Renaissance poetry with different rhythms and themes, so their voices wouldn’t match this poem as closely.