Answer:
A.
Explanation:
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)