艾米丽·狄金森(1830—1886)是美国浪漫主义时期一位重要的女诗人。她与瓦尔特·惠特曼一起并称为美国现代诗歌的先驱。美国著名评论家哈罗德·布鲁姆给予了她极高的评价,认为“除了莎士比亚,狄金森是但丁以来西方诗人中显示了最多认知原创性的作家”[1]。然而,正是这种原创性同时也造就了她著名的隐晦诗风,因为她过 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an important female poet in American Romanticism. Together with Walter Whitman, she is the forerunner of modern American poetry. Harold Bloom, a famous American critic, gave her a very high opinion that “except Dickinson, Shakespeare, Dickinson has shown the most cognitive originality among Western poets since Dante.” However, it is this originality that has also created her famous implicit poetry, because she has