美國文學(xué)詩歌賞析
美國文學(xué)詩歌賞析
I’m Nobody! 我是無名之輩
Emily Dickinson I’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 T
hey’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 整日地把你談?wù)摪?nbsp;
To an admiring bog! 對著他們傾慕的泥沼
This poem is Dickinson’ 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 A traveler comes to a fork in the road and needs to decide which way to go to continue his journey. After much mental debate, he picks the road “less traveled by”. The poem describes the tough choices people stand for when traveling the road of life. The words "sorry" and "sigh" make the tone of poem somewhat gloomy. Different choices will lead to different life journeys. And all these depend on one’s momentary decision.
The road not taken