《新编美国文学史（第三卷）》课件lecture 7 Whitman and dickinson.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * THE WOMAN IN WHITE How much do you know about Emily Dickinson (her life)? “I must tell you about the?character?of Amherst. It is a lady whom the people call the?Myth?... She has not been outside of her own house in fifteen years ... She dresses wholly in white, & her mind is said to be perfectly wonderful. She writes finely, but no one?ever?sees her.“ (1881) ?Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well? (1891) * From the?daguerreotype?taken at?Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847. The only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson later than childhood I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog! *  I like to see it lap the Miles— And lick the Valleys up— And stop to feed itself at Tanks— And then—prodigious step Around a Pile of Mountains— And supercilious peer In Shanties—by the sides of Roads— And then a Quarry pare To fit its Ribs And crawl between Complaining all the while In horrid—hooting—stanza— Then chase itself down Hill— And neigh like Boanerger — Then — punctual as a Star Stop — docile and omnipotent At its own stable door — prodigious: enormous;supercilious: condescending, arrogant, proud;Boanerges: a name Christ gave to the disciples James and John, meaning "sons of thunder"; also, a loud preacher or orator;omnipotent: all powerful. 我喜欢看它蜿蜒几英里时而舔着山谷爬起来时而停下来 在油箱里喂饱自己然后迈开惊人的大步绕着重重叠叠的山峦骄傲地盯着路边简陋的小木屋然后一个采石场削平了好适合它的两侧，并让它爬过去每一时刻它都在抱怨用令人害怕的、呼呼作响的呼啸声一节一节地互相追逐着跑下山坡像马嘶又像雷鸣最后 它会像星星一样准时停下——温顺地，无所不能地——在它自己的驿站里李杰玲 译? Thomas Wentworth Higginson in uniform; ‘Mr Higginson, Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?’ "I never was with any one