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。 Emily Dickinson, a 19th-century American poet, had never worked in any occupation, including becoming a professional writer. Dickinson, who is in the tide of the educational reform and the women’s movement in the United States in the second half of the 19th century, has the possibility of being a professional woman. She chose to retreat writing and refused to enter the literature market. The reason is that her living family environment and her own conservative attitude on the issue of women as well as her sacred definition of the poet’s identity prevented her from entering the 19th-century American literature market and becoming a full-time writer. However, Dickinson, who wrote at home, eventually created a stormy sea for American poetry.