Who wrote 'A Narrow Fellow In The Grass'?

• A. Poe
• B. Hawthorne
• C. Wordsworth
• D. Dickinson

Answer: (D)

This item tests your ability to identify who wrote a poem based on its voice and style. A Narrow Fellow In The Grass is by Emily Dickinson. The piece fits Dickinson’s concise, image-driven approach to nature and uses a restrained, almost clinical narrator: a sudden, intimate encounter with something in the grass described in spare, precise language. The tone is quiet and observant, with a subtle sense of unease, which is characteristic of Dickinson’s lyric voice and her tendency to capture vivid moments in few, carefully chosen words.

The other authors listed are known for different kinds of writing: Poe for Gothic tales and dramatic, dark poetry; Hawthorne for dense, moral-prose narratives; Wordsworth for expansive English Romantic poetry about nature. None of those fit this particular lyric as closely as Dickinson does.