听力笔记Peoples in America 012-Emily Dickinson艾米莉 迪金生

Emily Dickinson
(December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.

Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.[2] The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.[3] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet

 

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  slant
  [slɑ:nt]
  vt. & vi.
   (使)倾斜; 歪斜
   The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
   夕阳的光线一缕缕地从柏树林中斜穿过来。
  vt.
   有倾向性地编写或报道
   The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
   那位记者做出歪曲报道好让市长显得无能。
  n.
   斜面, 斜线
   The lines are drawn on a slant.
   这些线条被画成斜线。
   倾向, 偏向, 侧重
   The editorial had an antiunion slant.
   这篇社论有一种反工会的倾向。
• pierce
  [piəs]
  vt. & vi.
   刺入; 刺穿; 穿透
   The knife did not pierce very deeply.
   刀扎得不很深。
• ajar
  [əˈdʒɑ:]
  adj.
   半开着的
   The door was ajar, so the cat was able to come in.
   门半开着, 因此猫可以进来。
• sustenance
  [ˈsʌstinəns]
  n.
   食物; 营养; 养料
• incision
   【医】切口

I'M Nobody! Who are you?

I'M Nobody! Who are you?
Are you--Nobody--too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they'd advertise--you know!
How dreary--to be--Somebody!
How public--like a Frog--
To tell your name--the livelong June--
To an admiring Bog!

我是无名之辈! 你是谁?
你也是无名之辈吗?
那么我们为一对!
别说! 他们会传开去-- 你知道!
多无聊—— 是—— 某某名人!
多招摇—— 象个青蛙——
告诉你的名字 —— 漫长的六月——
给一片赞赏的沼泽!

 

 

我一直在爱

　
我一直在爱
我可以向你证明
直到我开始爱
我从未活得充分——

我将永远爱下去
也可以向你论证
爱就是生命
生命有不休的特性

如果，亲爱的，
对此也抱怀疑
我就无从举证，
除了，骷髅地——

江枫 译

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