Emily Dickinson诗歌赏析.docVIP

= 1 \* GB3 ①I’m Nobody!我是无名之辈－Emily DickinsonI’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 DickinsonAs 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 HYPERLINK /english/melani/lit_term.html \l irony ironic because of the discrepancy between the personas understanding and view and those of Dickinson and the reader. Under the guise of the childs accepting societys values, is Dickinson really rejecting those values? Is Dickinson suggesting that the true somebody is really the nobody? The child-speaker welcomes the person who honestly identifies herself and who has a true identity. These qualities make that person nobody in societys eyes. To be somebody is to have status in society; society, the majority, excludes or rejects those who lack status or are nobody--that is, theyd banish us for being nobody. In stanza 2, the child-speaker rejects the role of somebody (How dreary). The frog comparison depicts somebody as self-important