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①
I
’
m
Nobody!
我是无名之辈
－
Emily Dickinson
I
’
m nobody! Who
are you?
我是无名之辈！你是谁？
Are you nobody, too?
你也是无名之辈吗？
Then
there
’
s a pair of us----
don
’
t tell!
那么我们就是一对儿了！千万不要透露出去
They
’
d banish us,
you know!
不然我们都会被他们驱逐，你知道。
How dreary to be somebody!
做一个某某，是多么沉闷无聊
How
public, like a frog
众人像是青蛙
To tell your name the livelong day
整日地把你谈论啊
To an
admiring bog!
对着他们倾慕的泥沼
我是无名之辈
艾米莉
·
狄金森
我是无名之辈，你是谁？
你，也是，无名之辈？
这就凑成一双，别声张！
你知道，他们会大肆张扬！
做个，显要人物，好不无聊！
像个青蛙，向仰慕的泥沼
——
在整个六月，把个人的姓名
聒噪
——
何等招摇！
This poem is
Dickinson
’
s most famous and
most defense of the kind of spiritual
privacy she favored, implying that to
be a Nobody is a luxury incomprehensible
to a dreary
somebody
—
for they are too
busy keeping their names in circulation.
But to be somebody is not as fancy as
it seems to be.
Emily
Dickinson
As you probably noticed when
you read this poem, none of the themes that I
discussed in the Overview of Dickinson
applies to this poem. My list was not
meant
to
cover
every
topic
Dickinson
wrote
on,
nor
does
every
poem
she
wrote fit neatly into a category.
Dickinson
adopts
the
persona
of
a
child
who
is
open,
naive,
and
innocent.
However, are the questions asked and
the final statement made by this poem
naive?
If
they
are
not,
then
the
poem
is
ironic
because
of
the
discrepancy
between the persona's understanding and
view and those of Dickinson and the
reader. Under the guise of the child's
accepting society's values, is Dickinson
really rejecting those values?
Is
Dickinson
suggesting
that
the
true
somebody
is
really
the
The
child-speaker
welcomes
the
person
who
honestly
identifies
herself
and
who
has
a
true
identity.
These
qualities
make
that
person
in
society's
eyes.
To
be
is
to
have
status
in
society;
society,
the
majority,
excludes
or
rejects
those
who
lack
status
or
are
is,
banish us
In stanza 2, the child-speaker rejects
the role of
The
frog
comparison
depicts
as
self-important
and
constantly
self-promoting.
She
also
shows
the
false
values
of
a
society
(the
bog
spongy
ground)
have
positive
or
negative
connotations?
What
qualities
are
associated with the
sounds a frog makes (croaking)?
Is there satire in this poem?
Some readers, who are
modest and self-effacing or who lack confidence,
feel
validated by this poem. Why?
②
To Make
a
Prairie…
To make
a prairie
It takes a clover and one
bee,
One clover and a bee,
And revery.
Revery alone
will do,
If bees are few.
去造一个草原
张祈试译
去造一个草原
需要一株三叶草和一只蜜蜂，
一株三叶草和一只蜜蜂，
还有梦。
如果蜜蜂不多，
单靠梦也行。
Dickinson's
tiny
poem
makes a
huge
statement
about
the
nature
of
musing,
day-dreaming, or as she puts
it,
Analysis
This little poem expresses Dickinson’s
continuing love affair with the spiritual
level of being. She begins by claiming
that to ma
ke a physically large item,
“a
prairie,” all one needs is two small
physical items, “a clover and one bee.”
Then she qualifies that by
saying, “One clover, and a bee / And revery”; then
she
qualifies
that
claim
further,
by
saying
if
you
don’t
have
one
of
those
physical
components, “bees,” (and by implication, the
clover as well), then you
can still
make the prairie by revery alone.
“Revery”
means
dream,
thought,
extended
concentration
on
any
subject,
or
even
day-
dreaming
wherein
the
mind
is
allowed
to
roam
free
over
the
landscape of unlimited expansion, but
to the speaker in this poem, “revery” is
more like meditation which results in a
true vision.
The
speaker’s
power
of
revery
demonstrates
an
advanced
achievement,
far
beyond
ordinary
day-dreaming
or
cogitation.
Ultimately,
this
speaker
is
claiming that without any physical
objects at all, the mind of one advanced in
the art of revery can produce any
object that mind desires.
③
Success Is Counted Sweetest
成功的含义
Success is counted sweetest
从未成功的人们
By those who ne'er succeed.
最懂得成功的甜美
.
To comprehend a nectar
惟有极度的渴求
Requires sorest need.
方能体会甘露的滋味
.
Not one of all the purple
host
身穿紫服的王者之师
Who took the flag today
今日虽高扬凯旗
,
Can tell the definition,
却无一人能把胜利的含义
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