我是個小人物。你是誰?
也是個小人物,對吧?
那我們是一對了!
別說!你知道,他們會到處張揚(yáng)。
當(dāng)個大人物,是多麼的無趣?
多招搖,彷彿青蛙一般,
在漫長的六月把自己的大名
向崇拜的沼澤炫耀!
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!
這是愛蜜莉狄金生的我是個小人物。過了這麼久,最深愛的外詩仍是這首,雖然我平常接觸的外國詩歌並不多。