艾米莉·狄金森的“职业观”

Emily Dickinson's Sense of “Career”

美国19世纪女诗人艾米莉·狄金森在世时,从未从事过任何一种职业,包括成为一名职业作家。身处美国19世纪下半叶教育改革和女性运动时代大潮的狄金森,拥有成为职业女性的现实可能性,可她却选择隐居写作,拒绝进入文学市场。究其原因是她生存的家庭环境和她本人在女性问题上的保守态度,以及她对诗人身份的神圣定义,使她无法进入19世纪的美国文学市场,成为一位专职作家。然而"在家"写作的狄金森终究为美国诗坛制造了惊涛骇浪。

Nineteenth-Century American poet Emily Dickinson never has a job when she was alive, even the job of a professional writer.Given the tide of educational reform and women right movement in the second half of nineteenth century, Dickinson could have taken the advantage of becoming professional woman, whereas she chose to write secretly at home, turned down all her chances.Possible reasons--her family pressure, conservative view of women issues, and her sacred definition of poet--all made her impossible to become a professional writer.No matter what, the working-at-home Dickinson left us great fortune as well.