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I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson


Original English:


I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell!
They'd advertise, you know!

How dreary to be somebody!
How public – like a frog –
To tell one's name the livelong June
To an admiring bog!


Chinese Translation: 我是無名小卒！


我是無名小卒！你是誰？
你也是無名小卒嗎？
那我們是一對囉？別說！
你知道他們會大肆宣傳！

當個重要人物多麻煩！
暴露於公眾 -- 像隻青蛙 --
在漫長的六月將自己的大名
報給仰慕的沼澤聽！
_________________
報三恩、耕三大福田

[[浴恩福]]

I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson


Original English:


I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell!
They'd advertise, you know!

How dreary to be somebody!
How public – like a frog –
To tell one's name the livelong June
To an admiring bog!


Chinese Translation: 我是無名小卒！


我是無名小卒！你是誰？
你也是無名小卒嗎？
那我們是一對囉？別說！
你知道他們會大肆宣傳！

當個重要人物多麻煩！
暴露於公眾 -- 像隻青蛙 --
在漫長的六月將自己的大名
報給仰慕的沼澤聽！
_________________
報三恩、耕三大福田

[ericcoliu]

Good translation.

Below is another version:

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 frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
_________________
Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[[ericcoliu]]

Good translation.

Below is another version:

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 frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
_________________
Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[dundas]

I like the first version. The concluding lines are great.
_________________
My throat knew thirst before the structure
Of skin and vein around the well

[[dundas]]

I like the first version. The concluding lines are great.
_________________
My throat knew thirst before the structure
Of skin and vein around the well

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The following is another version:


I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!

How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!
How public -- like a Frog --
To tell one's name -- the livelong June --
To an admiring Bog!
_________________
報三恩、耕三大福田

[[浴恩福]]

The following is another version:


I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!

How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!
How public -- like a Frog --
To tell one's name -- the livelong June --
To an admiring Bog!
_________________
報三恩、耕三大福田

[agincourt]

I like the third version.

I've always been intrigued by Dickinson’s unique way of use of capitalization and punctuation.She often arranges lines of verse in unusual ways and seemingly sporadically employs dashes to signal a break in a line of a poem.
_________________
Napped half the day;
no one
punished me!

[[agincourt]]

I like the third version.

I've always been intrigued by Dickinson’s unique way of use of capitalization and punctuation.She often arranges lines of verse in unusual ways and seemingly sporadically employs dashes to signal a break in a line of a poem.
_________________
Napped half the day;
no one
punished me!

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