Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
Emily-Dickinson作者简介
Themes
Dickinson's poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys. But within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and nature.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
(December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. As the "Belle of Amherst", she was one of the most highly-regarded poets ever to write.
Style
(1) poems without titles (2) capital letters – emphasis (3) severe economy of expression (4) directness, brevity (5) musical device to create cadence (rhythm) (6) short poems, mainly two stanzas (7) rhetoric techniques: personification – make some of abstract ideas vivid (8) use a lot of dashes
Emily Dickinson
5.The word “ground” is repeated twice in this stanza, suggesting that the final destination of humankind is in the ground.
In the last stanza, the poet draws a comparison between the transience of man’s life and the eternity of God: centuries in God’s “Eternity” feels shorter than a single day in life.
Emily Dickinson is known for her unusual use of punctuation, spelling and rhyme scheme. She was especially fond of using the dash (“--”)and capitalizing nouns. Because of her individual conception of poetry and her peculiar use of poetic devices, her poetry takes on an unusual form, which has not only exerted great influence on Western modern poetry, but has also made some of her poems difficult to understand.
Questions
1. What is the poet’s attitude towards death in this poem? 2. In God’s eternity, centuries feel shorter than a day in life. How do you understand this ides? How does this idea relate to the poem? 3. Many rhetorical devices are used in this poem. Try to pick out some and explain them.
艾米莉·狄金森(Emily-Dickinson)译诗20首(中英文)
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
For each beloved hour Sharp pittances of years, Bitter contested farthings And coffers heaped with tears.
当地上不能存在 天堂是何等美妙
那时，我们老邻居上帝的表情 会多么好客，殷勤，周到
It was too late for Man But early, yet for God Creation - impotent to help But Prayer - remained - Our Side -
A throe upon the features -
A hurry in the breath An ecstasy of parting Denominated “Death” -
An anguish at the mention Which when to patience grown, I’ve known permission given To rejoin its own.
" 信念" 是个微妙的发明
" 信念" 是个微妙的发明 当绅士们能看见的时候— 但显微镜却是谨慎的 在紧急的时候。
"Faith" is a fine invention
"FAITH" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see-But Microsopes are prudent In an Emergency.
Emily Dickenson诗歌赏析及解读
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his civility.We passed the school, where children stroveAt recess, in the ring;We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun.Or rather, he passed us;The dews grew quivering and chill,For only gossamer my gown,My tippet only tulle.We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground;The roof was scarcely visible,The cornice but a mound.Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each Feels shorter than the dayI first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity. 我无暇去会死亡爱米莉·伊丽莎白·狄更生我无暇去会死亡，死神便和善地接我前往，我只好放下劳作与闲暇，无法拒绝他的殷勤礼让。
我们一起坐上马车，还有永生陪伴身旁，我们驱车缓缓前行，他悠然自得不慌不忙。
我们经过校园，娱乐的孩子挤满操场，我们经过田野，麦穗张望，我们经过西沉的太阳。
美国文学 Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson艾米莉·狄金森(1830 - 1886)1.The usual beginning : her life1) Born to religious, well-to-do New England family•Well-behaved, well-educated, obedient•Expected to become a graceful woman, marry well, and settle into a life of church service2) Heartbreak :•Heartbreak At 24, travels with her father to Washington D.C. Escaping her love of an older lawyer, who was married, and would die of tuberculosis that same year•On the journey, falls in love with Charles Wadsworth, a married pastor of a church in Philadelphia In 1862, Wadsworth leaves for San Francisco, and Emily falls into despair3) The Nun of Amherst : 阿默斯特的女尼•Emily withdraws from social life – except for immediate family gatherings•Dresses all in white – like the wedding gown she would never wear •Communicates mostly through notes4) A Published Poet :•During her period of recluse, Emily send a few poems to be published.•Her poetry was never widely admired during her lifetime•and she assumed her audience would only be her family and few close friends. •Dickinson asked that upon her death, all of her poems be destroyed.5) After her death :•She wrote altogether 1775 poems, of which only seven appeared in print in her lifetime. •These were eventually published and Dickinson has become one of the most widely known of the American poets.2. Themes in her poetry1). The largest poetry concerns death and immortality.For Dickinson, death leads to immortality.•E. g: ―Because I could not Stop for Death‖因为我不能为死神止步Because I could Not Stop For Death因为我不能为死神止步•Beause I could not stop for Death—因为我不能为死神止步•He kindly stopped for me—他却慈祥地为我驻足.•The Carriage held but just Ourselves—那辆马车只能容下我们两个•And Immortality.还有不朽.•We slowly drove— He knew no haste,我们徐徐而行—他不慌不忙. •And I had put away•My labor and my leisure too我也把我的劳与闲统统丢掉一边，•For His Civility —为了他的礼让—•We passed the School where Children strove 我们路过学校,孩子们你推我搡，•At Recess —in the Ring —在休息时间，在圆形广场•We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—我们走过在田间凝眸的麦田—. •We passed the Setting Sun—我们路过夕阳-•Or rather— He passed Us—或毋宁说，他走过我们身旁•The Dews drew quivering and chill—寒露降，身子冻得打颤•For only Gossamer, my Gown—因为我只披着薄纱长袍—•my Tippet —only Tulle—我的披肩如丝网•We paused before a House that seemed 我们停步在一所房子前•A swelling of the Ground—那是隆起的土地一片—•The Roof was scarcely visible—屋顶几乎看不见—•The Cornice —in the Ground—屋檐—在地里—•Since then — `tis Centuries— and yet离那时—已是几个世纪—然而•Feels shorter than the Day感觉却比一天还短•I first surmised the Horses' Heads•我开始猜想着马车•Were toward Eternity—•正驶向永恒—该诗的核心意象是通向永恒的生命旅程.Journey of life：•the School--childhood•the Field --adult/maturity•the Setting Sun - old age•the grave - end of life’s journey-death--EternityDetailed analysis of the poem•The first line hints that death is not the final stopping place or terminus of existence.•i had...too:figuratively I put behind me the labour and toil of worldly existence. Literally, as a courteous passenger she puts aside her work, possibly her knitting ("labour") and gives all her attention to the coach driver (Death).•where...ring: they pass children at playtime ("recess") actively engaged in playing a game (symbolic of the world, and/or of meaningless worldly striving).•fileds of gazing grain: cornfields,perhaps suggestive of harvest, or the cycle of the seasons, the natural world she is leaving behind. ("Gazing" is nicely alliterative but difficult to explain to expain-may mean simply something gazed at through the carriage window).•The dews: in the English culture, drew is traditionally associated with transience and also, because of a dew-drop's pearl like shape, with the soul.•My tippet only tulle:my fur was only soft fine silk (I wore little to protect me from the cold). •We...ground: a grave or tomb. ("paused"implies that burial in a grave signfied no more than a temporary restinplace before the soul attends to heaven).•Since then 'tis centuries:time is meaningless in terms of eternity,and therefore it seems no time at all since she first suspected("surmised")that the horse drawing Death's carriage were heading for Eternity. •"Surmised"is a beautifully apt word in this context because it tactfully suggeste something less than a certitude, but someting more than guess or conjecture-the sound of the word with its long drawn out second syllable counts for a good deal here(possibly about Cortez the explorer first viewing the continent of South America:"...and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise..."). •Other poems dealing with death:•My life closed twice before its close在我生命结束之前已经结束过两次•I heard a fly buzz—when I died我死时听到了苍蝇的嗡嗡声She began to conceive of the process of dying.2). She regards nature as both kind and cruel•Extol the magnificence of sunrise in ―I’ll tell you how sun rise‖我将告诉你太阳如何升起,•In the meantime, reveal the cold indifference of nature.•In ―Apparently with no surprise‖显然地并无伴随惊讶, Frost kills a happy flower without being punished while both the sun and God look on.3). On the ethical level she emphasizes free-will and human responsibility.•In ―To fight aloud‖•The individual’s highest duty is to resist anything that will do harm to man’s self-respect and spiritual heritage.4). Like Emerson, she holds that beauty, truth and goodness are ultimately one.•In ―I died for beauty‖(我为美而死), discusses beauty and truth, concludes that the two are one.I Died for Beauty— But was scarce•I died for Beauty — but was scarce我为美而死—但还不怎么•Adjusted in the Tomb适应坟墓里的生活，•When One who died for Truth , was lain这时一位为真理而死的人被安放在•In an adjoining Room —隔壁墓室里—•He questioned softly"Why I failed?―他柔声问：―我为什么而亡？‖•"For Beauty ",I replied —―为了美‖，我回答说—•"And I — for Truth — Themself are One —―我—为了真理—美和真是一样的—•We Bretheren, are", He said —我们两是兄弟‖，他说•And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night —就这样，像亲人在夜里相遇。
Emily-Dickinson作者及作品简介
Mine – by the Right of the White Election 《我的根据白色选举的权利》
Wild Nights – Wild Nights 《狂风夜—狂风夜》
Death is a Dialogue between
《死是一场对话》 The Soul selects her own Society
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Life Experience
Some time around 1850 she began writing poetry. Her first poems were traditional and followed established form, but as time passed and she began producing huge amounts of poetry, Dickinson began experimenting. During her lifetime, she wrote about 1,800 poems.
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. As the "Belle of Amherst", she was one of the most highly-regarded
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Life Experience
In 1886, Dickinson's health began deteriorating and she found herself slowly becoming an invalid. Dickinson was only fifty-six, but she was suffering from a severe case of Bright's disease. She died on May 15, 1886, and was buried in a white coffin in Amherst. She didn’t Emily Dickinson's tombstone in the family plot marry any man throughout her lifetime.
公开课poems Emily_Dickinson_ppt
Example of ABCB rhyme scheme
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Stanza 1: Death, in the image of a kind gentleman, comes in a carriage for the sake of Immortality and me. Stanza 2: Because of his kindness in stopping for me, I gave up my work and my enjoyment of life as well; I give up my life. Stanza 3: The journey of our carriage implies the experience of human life; school stands for childhood; the fields of gazing grain, for youth and adulthood; while the setting sun, for old age.
Questions for discussion
Because I Could Not Stop for Death 1. What is the poet’s attitude toward death? 2. What metaphor does Dickinson use for Death? If you were a poet, what metaphor would you use for death?
艾米莉·狄金森诗选31首
艾米莉·狄金森诗选31首艾米莉.狄金森(Emily Dickinson)(1830～1886) 为美国隐士女诗人，生前写过一千七百多首令人耳目一新的短诗，却不为人知，死后名声大噪。
她诗风独特，以文字细腻、观察敏锐、意象突出著称。
题材方面多半是自然、死亡、和永生。
我从未看过荒原我从未看过荒原--我从未看过海洋--可我知道石楠的容貌和狂涛巨浪。
我从未与上帝交谈也不曾拜访过天堂--可我好像已通过检查一定会到那个地方。
I never saw a moorI never saw a Moor--I never saw the Sea--Yet know I how the Heather looksAnd what a Billow be.I never spoke with GodNor visited in Heaven--Yet certain am I of the spotAs if the Checks were given--云暗天低又复云暗，飞过雪花一片。
穿越车辙马圈，去留择决艰难。
谁人这样待风，令其整天抱怨。
自然犹如我等，时常没戴皇冠。
BecloudedTHE sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snowAcross a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go.A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.我是无名之辈! 你是谁?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!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!" 信念" 是个微妙的发明" 信念" 是个微妙的发明当绅士们能看见的时候--但显微镜却是谨慎的在紧急的时候。
美国文学 诗人 埃米莉 狄金森 Dickinson 生平及作品介绍(精排版)
Being rooted in the puritanical Massachusetts of the 1800's, the Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition, and they were expected to take up their father's religious beliefs and values without argument.
Emily Dickinson (1830—1886)
“The Belle of Amherst”
Amherst, Massachusetts was an Emily was born there.
Amherst is now known for the very fine Amherst College that is located there.
she seldom left her house and visitors were scarce; she lived in almost total physical isolation from the
outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences(通信) and read widely.
Emily Dickinson 艾米莉·狄金森
Dickinson’s Poetry
◆ Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her poetry, there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capitals as a means of emphasis. ◆ The form of her poetry is more less like that of the hymns in community churches, familiar, communal, and sometimes, irregular. ◆ Her poetry abounds in telling images.
◆ A salient feature of her technique is her severe economy of expression. Her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness, and plainest words. ◆ Her poems are usually short, tending to be personal and meditative due to her deliberate seclusion. Her poetry is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness. All these characteristics were to become popular through Stephen Crane with the Imagist such as Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell in the twentieth century. She became, with Stephen Crane, the precursor of the Imagist movement.
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1775 poems
During her lifetime, no more than seven of her poems were put into print.
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
Themes Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality. We slowly drove—He knew no haste And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too For His Civility—
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
Since then—'tis centuries—and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity— Death Immortality
Religion
doubtful
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
"Nature" is what we see— The Hill—the Afternoon— Squirrel—Eclipse—the Bumble bee— Nay—Nature is Heaven— Nature is what we hear— The Bobolink—the Sea— Thunder—the Cricket— Nay—Nature is Harmony—
Nature simple and harmonious
Nature is what we know— Yet have no art to say— So impotent Our Wisdom is To her Simplicity.
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
My River runs to thee— Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me? My River waits reply— Oh Sea—look graciously— I'll fetch thee Brooks From spotted nooks— Say—Sea—Take Me!
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) Poet
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
Amherst, Massachusetts a life of simplicity and seclusion
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
Over the fence— Strawberries—grow— Over the fence— I could climb—if I tried, I know— Berries are nice! But—if I stained my Apron— God would certainly scold! Oh dear, I guess if He were a Boy— He'd—climb—if He could!Love pa来自sion, unhappiness
Emily Dickinson and Her Poems
Assignment “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” “This Is My Letter to the World” “Success Is Counted Sweetest” Themes