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艾米莉·狄金森和她的诗“Nobody”
(2006-01-05 20:54:42)
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Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts, her life of solitude, she was able to focus on her world more sharply than other authors of her time - contemporary authors who had no effect on her writing. Emily was original and innovative in her poetry, most often drawing on the Bible, classical mythology, and Shakespeare for allusions and references. Many of her poems were not completed and written on scraps of paper, such as old grocery lists. Eventually when her poetry was published, editors took it upon themselves to group them into classes - Friends, Nature, Love, and Death. These same editors arranged her works with titles, rearranged the syntax, and standardized Dickinson's grammar. Fortunately in 1955, Thomas Johnson published Dickinson's poems in their original formats, thus displaying the creative genius and peculiarity of her poetry.
艾米莉·狄金森1830出生在马萨诸塞州阿莫斯特一个僻静的社区.孤独的生活使她比任何人更敏锐地关注自己的世界。当代的作家诗人对她的写作没有什么影响，她的诗是原创的，隐现其间的意蕴常常与圣经、古典神话和莎士比亚相勾连。她的诗大多不完整，是写在报纸或便条上的草稿。事实上她的诗最后出版时，编辑才把它们按照朋友、自然、爱情和死亡来分类。同样这些编辑们给她的诗加写了标题，调整了她的句子结构，使其语法标准化。幸运的是，1995年约翰托马斯按照迪金森原来的形式出版了她的诗，因此展示了诗人的创作天赋和诗之独特。
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know!
How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog –
To tell one’s name — the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
2.There are various versions of Emily's poetry because she did not submit them for publishing herself. Her brother and sister-in-law reworded some of her poetry after her death to make it more understandable. I can only imagine that the poem was reworded at this time.
But she is already making it seem that people who don't fit in with one group, can fit in another. Dickinson had wanted to be cut off from the world, for reasons unknown. She always did have a bad taste in men.(all the men she liked were married, and none of them wanted to leave their wives for her.）
在这首“I'm nobody! Who are you ?”里，作者想直接表达的就是“让你成为你自己”“不要让任何人改变你，因为你是独特的”。作者让人们感觉到如果你不适合这样一个群体，就会适合另外一个。但是，狄金森把自己与世隔绝，却是何原因？的确，她对男人的感觉总是不爽（所有她愿意下嫁的男人却没有一个为了她离开他们的妻子。）
If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain.
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