Question

What do the final two stanzas suggest about " A narrow Fellow in the Grass"?

Answer 1

Answer choices:

A. The nature-loving persona wants to meet the narrow fellow in the grass but never has.

B. The narrow fellow in the grass is a figment of the persona's imagination.

C. In the presence of the narrow fellow in the grass, the persona feels comfortable.

D. Though usually comfortable outdoors, the persona is fearful of the narrow fellow.

The answer is D because, in the two final stanzas in the poem, Emily Dickinson is describing how she knows the several of nature's people, but not the narrow fellow in the grass and how her breathing got tighter. The last line that says, "And Zero at the Bone" is another way of saying that the fellow in the grass gave her chills to the bone, almost as if she saw a ghost. I hope this helped! :)

Answer 2

Those two final stanzas suggest that although the poetess usually feels very comfortable being outdoors, she feels fear before the "narrow fellow in the grass". Her "tighter breathing" suggests that she is left breathless when confronted with this creature, breathless with fear or wonder, when it is close. She is frozen, cannot move due to the fact that she is very frightened.