-
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
In
stanza
2,
the
child-speaker
rejects
the
role
of
(
dreary
The
frog
comparison
depicts
as
self-important
and
constantly
self-promoting.
She
also
shows
the
false
values
of
a
society
(the
bog
which
approves
the
frog-somebody.
Does
the
word
(it
means
wet,
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
make 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
li
ke
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