美国文学诗歌赏析
美国文学诗歌赏析
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 T
hey’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
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