emilydickinson詩歌賞析

1、I'm Nobody!我是無名之輩 Emily DickinsonI m nobody! Who are you我是無名之輩！你是誰Are you nobody, too你也是無名之輩嗎Then there s a pair of us don t tell!那么我們就是一對兒了！千萬不要透露出去They d banish us, you know!不然我們都會被他們驅(qū)逐，你知道。How dreary to be somebody! 做一個某某，是多么沉悶無聊How public, like a frog 眾人像是青蛙To tell your name the livelong day

2、整日地把你談?wù)摪o an admiring bog!對著他們傾慕的泥沼我是無名之輩艾米莉狄金森我是無名之輩，你是誰你，也是，無名之輩這就湊成一雙，別聲張！你知道，他們會大肆張揚(yáng)！做個，顯要人物，好不無聊！像個青蛙，向仰慕的泥沼 在整個六月，把個人的姓名聒噪 何等招搖！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 dr

3、eary 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

4、 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

5、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 valuesIs Dickinson suggesting that the true somebody is really the "nobody" The

6、child-speaker welcomes the person who honestly identifies herself and who has a true identity. These qualities make that person "nobody" in society's eyes. To be "somebody" is to have status in society; society, the majority, excludes or rejects those who lack status or are &

7、quot;nobody"-that is, "they'd 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 and constantly self-promoting. She also shows the false va

8、lues of a society (the "admiring bog") which approves the frog-somebody. Does the word "bog" (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 poemSome readers, who are

9、 modest and self-effacing or who lack confidence, feel validated by this poem. Why To Make a Prairie To make a prairieIt takes a clover and one bee,One clover and a bee,And revery.Revery alone will do,If bees are few.去造一個草原張祈試譯去造一個草原需要一株三葉草和一只蜜蜂， 一株三葉草和一只蜜蜂，還有夢。如果蜜蜂不多， 單靠夢也行。Dickinson's tiny poe

10、m makes a huge statement about the nature of musing, day-dreaming, or as she puts it, "revery."AnalysisThis little poem expresses Dickinson s continuing love affair with the spiritual level ofbeing. She begins by claiming that to make a physically large item,“ a prairie,needs is two small

11、physical items,“ a clover and one bee. ”Then she qualifies that by saying, “Oneclover, and a bee / And revery ” th;en she qualifies that claim further, by saying if you don thave one of those physical components, “ bees, ” (and by implication, the clover as well), then you can still make the prairie

12、 by revery alone.“ Reverym” eans 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 i”s more like meditation which results in a true vision.The speak

13、er 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 Sweet

14、es喊功的含義Success is counted sweetestM 未成功的人們By those who ne'er succeed. 最懂得成功的甜美To comprehend a nectar 惟有極度的渴求Requires sorest need. 方能體會甘露的滋味Not one of all the purple host 身穿紫服的王者之師Who took the flag today 今日雖高揚(yáng)凱旗,Can tell the definition, 卻無一人能把勝利的含義So clear,of victory, 說清道明 .As he,defeated,dying,

15、戰(zhàn)敗者奄奄一息On whose forbidden ear 凱樂在遠(yuǎn)處奏響,The distant strains of triumph 沖破阻隔,飛到他的耳際Break,agonized and clear.悲痛而噴亮.A common idea in Dickinson's poems is that not having increases our appreciation or enjoyment of what we lack; the person who lacks or does not have understands whatever is lacking bett

16、er than the person who possesses it. In this poem, the loser knows the meaning '"definition" of victory better than the winners. The implication is that he has "won" this knowledge by paying so high a price, with the anguish of defeat and with his death.In stanza one, she rep

17、eats the s sound and, to a lesser degree, n. Why does she use this alliteration ., are the words significant "Sorest" is used with the older meaning of greatest, but can it also have the more common meaning What are the associations of "nectar"-good, bad, indifferent Does "n

18、ectar" pick up any word in the first lineIn stanza two, "purple" connotes royalty; the robes of kings and emperors were dyed purple. It is also the color of blood. Are these connotations appropriate to the poem In a battle, what does a flag represent Why is victory described in terms

19、of taking the losing side's flagIn stanza three, what words are connected by d sounds and by s sounds Is there any reason for connecting or emphasizing these words Dickinson is compressing language and omitting connections in the last three lines. The dying man's ears are not forbidden; rath

20、er, the sounds of triumph are forbidden to him because his side lost the battle. The triumphant sounds that he hears are not agonized, though they are clear to him; rather, he is agonized at hearing the clear sounds of triumph of the other side. They are "distant" literally in being far of

21、f and metaphorically in not being part of his experience; defeat is the opposite of or "distant" from victory.Success is counted sweetest."SummaryThe speaker says that "those who ne'er succeed" place the highest value on success. (They "count" it "sweetest

22、".) To understand the value of a nectar, the speaker says, one must feel "sorest need." She says that the members of the victorious army ("the purple Host / Who took the flag today") are not able to define victory as well as the defeated, dying man who hears from a distance

23、the music of the victors.The three stanzas of this poem take the form of iambic trimeter-with the exception of the first two lines of the second stanza, which add a fourth stress at the end of the line. (Virtually all of Dickinson's poems are written in an iambic meter that fluctuates fluidly be

24、tween three and four stresses.) As in most of Dickinson's poems, the stanzas here rhyme according to an ABCBscheme, so that the second and fourth lines in each stanza constitute the stanza's only rhyme.CommentaryMany of Emily Dickinson's most famous lyrics take the form of homilies, or s

25、hort moral sayings, which appear quite simple but that actually describe complicated moral and psychological truths. "Success is counted sweetest" is such a poem; its first two lines expressits homiletic point, that "Successis counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed" (o

26、r, more generally, that people tend to desire things more acutely when they do not have them). The subsequent lines then develop that axiomatic truth by offering a pair of images that exemplify it: the nectar-a symbol of triumph, luxury, "success"-can best be comprehended by someone who &q

27、uot;needs" it; the defeated, dying man understands victory more clearly than the victorious army does. The poem exhibits Dickinson's keen awareness of the complicated truths of human desire (in a later poem on a similar theme, she wrote that "Hunger-was a way / Of Persons outside Windo

28、ws- / The Entering-takes away-"), and it shows the beginnings of her terse, compacted style, whereby complicated meanings are compressed into extremely short phrases ., "On whose forbidden ear").Theme of SuccessIs Counted Sweetest "Success Is Counted Sweetest"by Emily Dickin

29、son basically sends the message that success, like any other possession tangible or intangible, is only appreciated by those whom it is not always readily available.The theme of the poem is that only those who have not been successful think that success is soimportant. The loser is the one who conti

30、nues to crave success as the winner fades into a neutral state of emotion.Dickinson clearly states this message and implies it throughout the poem, and uses rhyme, imagery, and irony to incorporate the theme that the one who thirst for success is the one who never succeeds.The rhythmic pattern makes

31、 the poem flow together, using the rhyme scheme ABCB in the short, three stanzas, like a song. This typical rhyming scheme gives a light affect to the poem; creating the feeling of simpleness and achieving the feeling that the message is not buried deep in the poem's lines and is easy to compreh

32、end.In the first stanza, the speaker declares that it is only those who “ ne seurcceed ” who have the notion that success isthe best thing. “Anectar ” metaphorically represents the thing that is desired. Nectar is anything that is sweet.Emily also uses imagry to develop her message.In the second sta

33、nza, the speaker dramatizes a field victory , saying that the winners cannot clearly state a definition of victory. The stanza paints a picture of the victor in the war, but the victor does not understand to the full extent what his victory is, and just counts it as victory. In the third stanza, the defeated, however, is in 'agony' and knows how powerful success is and what affect it has.Dickinso