Iwill give read the poem "the mountain" by emily dickinson. the mountain sat upon the plain in his eternal chair, his observation omnifold, his inquest everywhere. the seasons prayed around his knees, like children round a sire: grandfather of the days is he, of dawn the ancestor. dickinson uses figurative language in the first stanza to criticize the mountain’s unchanging ways. bring the mountain to life. compare the mountain to furniture. suggest that the mountain is meddlesome.

Emily Dickinson has been one of the most representative woman's voice of the 19th century, expressing with her poetry women's issues with special ingenuity by visualizing a new world layout for women, free from patriarchal tyranny.

The Mountain mocks the institution of patriarchy in society, which it was particularly and specially grounded around the 19th century experienced by the author; with a remarkable use of the language to conceive the idea of a large solid structure being the framework of society, intending to project a ruthless version of her reality as a woman in a men's world.

The poem is refreshing, displaying a simple approach to a playful device "the metaphor" to gain an easy rhetorical effect, in a clever way.

If you follow the rhetoric in the figured speech, and the Mountain is the "Institution of Patriarchy" then Dickinson uses the first stanza to "criticize the mountain's unchanging ways". Therefore (A)

the correct answer is (a) . answer should be simple, clear and brief.

d understatement