英语听力文摘 English Digest 127、艾米丽迪金森
时间：2019-02-16 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力文摘 English Digest
Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and lived all of her 56 years in Amherst, Massachusetts where, during her lifetime, she was celebrated 1 more as a gardener than a poet. Gardening in mid-Victorian times was thought to be a more appropriate activity for a woman. In her book “The Gardens of Emily Dickinson” ,Judith Farr explains how Emily’s hands-on-horticultural knowledge influenced her writing so profoundly. She frequently referred to herself and loved ones using flower names; flower images and garden themes were used to explore her emotional reality.
She described heaven as a “garden we have not seen” and her poems as “blossoms of the brain.” As a gardener, she understood that without the chill of winter, some perennial 2 plants cannot produce new growth. Bleak 3 times in human lives, like winter in a garden, however, may be a prelude 4 to growth and new beginnings. For Emily, winter had a masculine persona and a stony aspect, but she also felt the promise of relief when she wrote these lines about her winter:
“Generic as a
Quarry
And hearty - as
A rose -
Invited with
Asperity
But welcome
When he goes”
- He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
- The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
- I wonder at her perennial youthfulness.我对她青春常驻感到惊讶。
- There's a perennial shortage of teachers with science qualifications.有理科教学资格的老师一直都很短缺。
- They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
- The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。