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christine[christine] christine作品集 四品府丞 (封疆大吏也!)
注册时间: 2008-02-25 帖子: 304
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发表于: 星期六 三月 15, 2008 9:31 am 发表主题: Hope is a strange invention |
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Hope is a strange invention by Emily Dickinson
Hope is a strange invention --
A Patent of the Heart --
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out --
Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own --
Personal Reflection
In these days when we are constantly confronted by televised suffering, global warning, subprime loan crisis, and oil price hike, we keep asking ourselves, "How could this thing happen? I cannot believe this." Hope itself seems to be the most unbelievable things of all.
In her Hope is a strange invention, Emily Dickinson gives the reader a wonderful idea of what hope really is. Although we cannot see or hold it ("Of this electric Adjunct / Not anything is known"), it lives in our human hearts ("A Patent of the Heart"), and it is what runs our lives ("In unremitting action / Yet never wearing out") and gives meaning to everything we do ("its unique momentum / Embellish all we own"). |
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期六 三月 15, 2008 4:34 pm 发表主题: |
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Sorry! I don't believe that hope is the patent of the heart.
You need to have the faith of a child to believe what Dickinson conveys in her poem.
It's interesting to discover that Emily Dickinson once wrote a poem entitled "Faith" is a fine invention:
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
Keywords are when and emergency.
In these days, "Hope" is the most unbelievable things of all. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期六 三月 15, 2008 4:34 pm 发表主题: |
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Another version of Emily Dickinson's "Faith" is a fine invention:
"Faith" is a fine invention
For Gentlemen who see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul |
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dundas[dundas] dundas作品集 五品知州 (再努力一把就是四品大员了!)
注册时间: 2008-02-23 帖子: 214
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发表于: 星期一 三月 17, 2008 1:27 pm 发表主题: |
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ericcoliu 写到: |
Sorry! I don't believe that hope is the patent of the heart.
You need to have the faith of a child to believe what Dickinson conveys in her poem.
It's interesting to discover that Emily Dickinson once wrote a poem entitled "Faith" is a fine invention:
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
Keywords are when and emergency.
In these days, "Hope" is the most unbelievable things of all. |
You're a hopeless pessimist.
In Dickinson's view, hope is a strange invention while "Faith" is a fine invention.
Keywords here are "strange" anf "fine." _________________ My throat knew thirst before the structure
Of skin and vein around the well |
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Champagne[Champagne] Champagne作品集 四品府丞 (封疆大吏也!)
注册时间: 2007-09-15 帖子: 394 来自: Nowhere & Everywhere
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发表于: 星期三 三月 19, 2008 4:13 pm 发表主题: |
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dundas 写到: |
You're a hopeless pessimist.
In Dickinson's view, hope is a strange invention while "Faith" is a fine invention.
Keywords here are "strange" and "fine." |
I think you need to pay close attention to the connotative meanings of words -- "strange" and "fine" -- Dickinson chose in her poems.
In her view, hope is a strange invention because it's biological while faith is a fine invention because it's man-made. Therefore, no one can be called a "hopeless pessimist." _________________ I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy. |
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clair[clair] clair作品集 七品按察司 (我开始管这里的事儿了)
注册时间: 2008-03-13 帖子: 83
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发表于: 星期四 三月 20, 2008 1:21 pm 发表主题: |
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Champagne 写到: |
In her view, hope is a strange invention because it's biological while faith is a fine invention because it's man-made. Therefore, no one can be called a "hopeless pessimist." |
After the close reading her two poems abovementioned, I think that hope resembles faith, the belief of God in itself, in Dickinson's universe. _________________ This dark
Ceiling without a star |
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