摘要：死亡和永恒是艾米莉狄金森大部分诗歌的主题，“因为我不能为死而停止”是她的经典诗歌之一。通过分析，本文通过现实与想象、已知与未知的辩证关系，澄清了无限概念。它讲述了Dickson眼中的永恒。
关键词：死亡，永恒，有限，无限
美国著名女诗人艾米莉·狄金森(1830-1886)是美国文学史上最杰出的作家之一。艾米丽·狄金森的诗歌和沃尔特·惠特曼的诗歌被认为是“美国文艺复兴”的一部分，被认为是意象主义的先驱。他们都摒弃习俗和接受智慧，尝试诗意的风格。然而她与怀特曼的方式不同。首先，怀特曼似乎总是关注社会，狄金森探索个人的内心生活。而惠特曼则是“国家”在他的看法，狄金森是“地区”艾米莉狄金森出生在阿默斯特，马萨诸塞州，于101830年12月。她几乎一辈子都住在同一个城镇（大部分都住在同一栋房子里），很少出差，从未结婚，最后几年也从未离开过她的家园。所以她被称为“阿默斯特的贞节”。然而，尽管有这种狭隘的——有些人可能会说——病理学上狭隘的——外向的体验，她是一个非常聪明、高度敏感、充满激情的人，在她的成年生活中，她写的诗（加起来大约有2000首）在内容和技术上都具有惊人的原创性。独特的诗歌，将深刻影响几代美国诗人，这将使她作为美国有史以来最伟大的诗人之一获得稳固的地位。狄金森的作品构思简单，但感觉强烈，具有敏锐的知识，把对人类至关重要的主题当作主题：爱的痛苦和狂喜、性欲、死亡的不可思议的本性、战争的恐怖、上帝和宗教信仰、幽默的重要性，以及沉思。文学、音乐和艺术的意义。艾米丽·狄金森喜欢詹姆斯国王版的《圣经》，还有英国作家威廉·莎士比亚、约翰·弥尔顿、查尔斯·狄更斯、伊丽莎白·巴雷特·布朗宁、乔治·艾略特和托马斯·卡莱尔。狄金森的早期风格显示了威廉·莎士比亚、巴雷特·勃朗宁、苏格兰诗人罗伯特·勃朗宁、英国诗人约翰·济慈和乔治·赫伯特的强烈影响。狄金森感激地读了爱默生，她成为一个普遍的人，在某种意义上，对她形成了影响。正如George F. Whicher所说，“她唯一的作用是检验超验主义伦理在其内在生活中的应用”。在艾米丽·狄金森的诗人中，“死亡”一词因为历史悠久，而且可能还有很长一段时间，人们对自己的死亡总是有不同的看法。即使我们这些仁慈地接受了死亡的人，至少也曾以某种方式——恐惧、恐惧或试图推迟死亡的到来。我们已将死亡拟人化——作为一个身穿全黑衣服的恶人，它的存在突然扑向我们，扼杀了我们的生命，仿佛它是一个怀有恶意的街头谋杀。但事实上，我们知道死亡并不是童话故事和神话中混乱的死神收割者。死亡不是邪恶的残酷和不公平的恶作剧，死亡是生命本身不可避免和自然的一部分。死亡与不道德是艾米莉·狄金森诗歌最大的主题。她对这些主题的专注导致了一种痴迷，以至于她的三分之一首诗都集中在他们身上。狄金森的许多朋友都先于她去世，而死亡似乎经常发生在当时的阿默斯特，这又增加了她忧郁的冥想。狄金森的作品并非纯粹描写死亡，而是强调生与死、死与爱、死与永恒之间的关系。死亡是一个必须跨越的桥梁。她并不害怕，因为来到另一个世界只是通过坟墓，上帝的宽恕是通向永恒的唯一途径。
Abstract: Death and eternity are the major themes in most of Emily Dickinson’s poems.“ Because I could not stop for death ”is one of her classic poems. Through the analysis, this essay clarifies infinite conceptions by the dialectical relationship between reality and imagination, the known and the unknown. And it tells what’s eternity in Dickson’s eyes.
Keywords: death, eternity, finite, infinite
Introduction Emily Dickinson（1830-1886）, the American best-known female poet ，was one of the foremost authors in American literature. Emily Dickinson ’s poems, as well as Walt Whitman’s, were considered as a part of "American renaissance"; they were regarded as pioneers of imagism. Both of them rejected custom and received wisdom and experimented with poetic style. She however differs from Whitman in a variety of ways. For one thing, Whitman seems to keep his eye on society at large; Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual. Whereas Whitman is "national" in his outlook, Dickinson is "regional" Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10,1830. She lived almost her entire life in the same town (much of it in the same house), traveled infrequently, never married, and in her last years never left the grounds of her family. So she was called "vestal of Amherst". And yet despite this narrow -- some might say -- pathologically constricted-outward experience, she was an extremely intelligent, highly sensitive, and deeply passionate person who throughout her adult life wrote poems (add up to around 2000 ) that were startlingly original in both content and technique, poems that would profoundly influence several generations of American poets and that would win her a secure position as one of the greatest poets that America has ever produced. 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. Death and immorality is the major theme in the largest portion of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Her preoccupation with these subjects amounted to an obsession so that about one third of her poems dwell on them. Dickinson’s many friends died before her, and the fact that death seemed to occur often in the Amherst of the time added to her gloomy meditation. Dickinson’s is not sheer depiction of death, but an emphatic one of relations between life and death, death and love, death and eternity. Death is a must-be-crossed bridge. She did not fear it, because the arrival in another world is only through the grave and the forgiveness from God is the only way to eternity.
