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题目：No.1 Im Nobody! Who are you? 原文：Im Nobody! Who are you?Are youNobodyToo?Then theres a pair of us!Dont tell! theyd advertiseyou know!How drearyto beSomebody!How publiclike a FrogTo tell ones namethe livelong JuneTo an admiring Bog!注释banish：To drive away; 类似于-expel:赶走；排除dreary：Boring;类似于-dull:令人生厌的；单调乏味的；somebody：A person of importance:重要人物, 有名气的人livelong day：终日, 整天整日bog：1.An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.沼泽，湿地2.The bog is another name for the toilet. (BRIT, INFORMAL) (c) HarperCollins Publishers.译文：我是无名之辈！你是谁？你也是无名之辈？那咱俩就成了一对别出声！他们会把咱们排挤要小心！ 多无聊身为赫赫显要！多招摇不过像只青蛙向一片仰慕的泥沼整日里炫耀自己的名号！诗人简介：Emily Dickinson（1830-1886）是美国十九世纪最著名的浪漫主义女诗人。她性格内向，深居简出，终身未婚。大约在二十几岁时就开始诗歌创作，共写2000多首诗，生前仅发表7首，直到1955年她的全集才得以完整出版。她的诗感情真挚，想象丰富，善于在琐碎的日常生活中发现隐藏着的意境。她的诗寓意深刻，富有哲理，在形式上打破传统，突破意象，被认为是美国现代派诗歌的前奏。简单评论：1.这首“Im nobody, Who are you”也许就是她一生的写照吧，她不喜欢那种种浮躁的贵族交际，放弃了显赫的家族荣耀，过上孤独却丰富的隐居生活2.很简单很警世的一首小诗，一如狄金森自身的真实写照：多无聊身为赫赫显要！/多招摇不过像只青蛙/向一片仰慕的泥沼/整日里炫耀自己的名号！确实，做一个小人物，平淡的幸福，又有什么不好的呢赏析：AAt school, being popular sometimes seems like the most important thing in the world. We often think that being the center of attention would be fantastic like being a famous movie star or athlete. Thats what Jesse Aarons thinks in Bridge to Terebithia until he meets Leslie Burke. Yet the speaker in Emily Dickinsons poem, Im nobody! Who are you? readily admits to being an outsider. Whats more, she even seems to like it. She says it would be dreary to be somebody.Is she crazy? Who would want to be an outsider? Think about it for a moment. Who would really want to be an insider?As an outsider, a nobody, the speaker is not forced to be public. She does not have to face the scrutiny or disapproval of people who are likely to be jealous of her popularity. She does not have to play games, put on an act, or keep trying in order to be a somebody. She can be herself and be comfortable.Whats more, she is not alone.What Does It Mean?The poems first stanza tells how the speaker meets a fellow nobody a friend. Together, the two nobodies can enjoy each others company and their shared anonymity.As a pair, they arent really nobodies anymore. Thats why the speaker says, Dont tell! / They d banish us, you know. She understands that once you have another nobody at your side, you arent really a nobody anymore. And she doesnt want to be banished or kicked out from what she sees as a society of nobodies. Shes comfortable there.In the second stanza, the tone of the poem changes. The speaker sounds confident. Perhaps it is her discovery that there are other people like her other nobodies- that makes her feels strongly that being a somebody isnt such a great idea.She realizes that having a friend who understands you and accepts you as you are is more important than being admired by a lot of people or being in the in crowd.BIn the poems second stanza, the speaker also makes a strange comparison. She says that being a somebody is like being a frog. What does this simile mean? Aside from Kermit, there arent many celebrity frogs around.Why does the speaker choose that amphibian as her representative of a public creature? Its because frogs make a lot of noise. The poem says that frogs, though they can croak and make themselves heard and be noticed, are noticed only by an admiring bog. The bog is the frogs environment, not the frogs friend. So who cares what the bog thinks?Thats what the poem says about being a somebody who gets noticed by an admiring public. Frequently, the relationship is impersonal and distanced, not like a real friendship. Somebodies may have many admirers, but they might not be able to make those personal connections that real friendship offers.This special connection between two people who consider themselves outsiders is mirrored in Jesse and Leslies friendship in Bridge to Terebithia. Jess and Leslie are nobodies who realize that being just like everyone else would be boring and would diminish their individuality. In the words of Dickinsons poem, it might be said that Jess and Leslie learn that it would actually be quite dreary to be a somebody!Being nobodies helps them find each other.CDickinsons LifeWhen composing Im nobody! Who are you? it is likely that Emily Dickinson was writing from the heart. She was one of American literatures most reclusive figures. Apart from one trip to Philadelphia, one trip to Washington D.C., and a few trips into Boston, Dickinson spent almost her entire 56 years in her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts. After she turned 40, she never left the boundaries of her familys property in Amherst.This unusual life helped Dickinson to feel a bond with people who see themselves as being outsiders and unimportant. Yet, to think of her as a friendless hermit would be incorrect. In fact, the poet had a small number of intense and lasting friendships. These important relationships demonstrate the main idea expressed in Im Nobody: Companionship is the best remedy for a feeling of exclusion.DThis little poem is so short and brief that I do not feel it is poem, but must be one. Although it is simple and plain, it can really tell us something about life. Emily starts her poem just like talking with us”Im nobody! Who are you?”; in this way she draws us closer to her poem. She uses the frog image on one hand to represent people of importance in public, and on the other hand shows us that she herself cares little about fame or anything like that, and she just wants to be nobody. The other strange image she uses is bog. Bog is wet, pony groun