关于美国文学史 我不能停下来等待死亡 作者 写作手法 修辞 主题内容

1、作者：Emily Dickinson 艾米丽·迪金森

2、写作手法：

诗人用韵以押头韵为主，有时也用尾韵和中间韵，造成不同的音乐韵律和听觉效果。在第三诗节采用了三个首读重复（We passed），浓墨重彩地渲染了人的一生的不同阶段：童年，school；成年，field，gazing，成熟期，辛苦劳作的时间；晚年，setting sun；走向死亡。从中可以看出她善于将抽象的概念具象化，赋予难以琢磨、无法言传的抽象事物以鲜明的形象和生命力，从而给人深刻的印象。

在这首诗中，Emily用了一些特别鲜明的意象，特别是她以死神为驾车邀她出游朋友的意象，贯穿诗歌的始终，前后呼应，渲染烘托了气氛。诗人赋予她的意象以深刻的内涵，成为她阐述对死亡与永恒的思想、观点，表达感情和再现场景的重要媒介。

3、修辞：象征、意象、拟人、联觉、隐喻

4、主题：

旨在探索诗中女主人公“我”与死神之旅的真正含义。本文通过“我”再次经历诗歌中象征人生的三个阶段后而顿悟，从而实现了质的升华而具有了神性，通往永生的追求。

Emily Dickinson uses remembered images of the past to clarify infinite conceptions through the establishment of a dialectical relationship between reality and imagination, the known and the unknown.

Dickinson’s simply constructed yet intensely felt, acutely intellectual

writings take as their subject issues vital to humanity: the agonies and

ecstasies of love, sexuality, the unfathomable nature of death, the horrors

of war, God and religious belief, the importance of humor, and musings

on the significance of literature, music, and art.

Emily Dickinson enjoys the King James Version of the Bible, as well

as authors such as English WRTERS William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles

Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Thomas Carlyle.

Dickinson’s early style shows the strong influence of William Shakespeare,

Barrett Browning, Scottish poet Robert Browning, and English poets John

Keats and George Herbert. And Dickinson read Emerson appreciatively, who

became a pervasive and, in a sense, formative influence over her. As George

F. Whicher notes, "Her sole function was to test the Transcendentalist

ethic in its application to the inner life".

1“death” in Emily Dickinson’s poets

For as long as history has been recorded and probably for much longer,

man has always been different idea of his own death. Even those of us who

have accepted death graciously, have at least in some way, --- feared,

dreaded, or attempted to delay its arrival. We have personified death--

as an evildoer dressed in all black, its presence swoops down upon us and

chokes the life from us as though it were some street murder with malicious

intent. But in reality, we know that death is not the chaotic grim reaper

of fairy tales and mythology. Rather than being a cruel and unfair prankster

of evil, death is an unavoidable and natural part of life itself.