愛蜜麗‧狄更森隱居時的閱讀量、書雁往返仍盛，受莎士比亞、葉慈影響甚巨，也影響她塑造詩中不同的敘事者「I，我」的角色。

本集節目續談死亡，一首是沉痛地談親身經歷的死別，一首虛構兩位死者聊天談死因。而從第二首詩最後，青草覆蓋墓地的意象，另佐以兩首以「青草」為題的現代詩，延伸看自然生死推進的無情。

本集重點：

00:29〈My life closed twice before its close〉：談死別，死者與生者的天堂與「地獄」

05:08〈I Died For Beauty - but was scarce〉：兩位墳墓裡死者的對話：你怎麼死的呢？

10:32青草意象延伸賞析：卡爾‧桑德堡〈Grass〉By Carl Sandburg

13:04青草意象延伸賞析：喬伊絲‧西德曼〈Grass〉By Joyce Sidman

延伸閱讀：

My life closed twice before its close  

My life closed twice before its close;

It yet remains to see

If Immortality unveil

A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive

As these that twice befell.

Parting is all we know of heaven,

And all we need of hell.

I Died For Beauty - but was scarce  

I died for beauty – but was scarce

Adjusted in the Tomb

When One who died for Truth, was lain

In an adjoining Room –

He questioned softly “why I failed”?

"For Beauty," I replied –

"And I – for Truth - Themself are one –

We Brethren, are", He said –

And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night –

We talked between the Rooms –

Until the Moss had reached our lips –

And covered up – Our names –

Grass    By Carl Sandburg  

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Shovel them under and let me work—

I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg

And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.

Shovel them under and let me work.

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:

What place is this?

Where are we now?

I am the grass.

Let me work.

Grass   By Joyce Sidman  

I grow in places

others can’t,

where wind is high

and water scant.

I drink the rain,

I eat the sun;

before the prairie winds

I run.

I see, I sprout,

I grow, I creep,

and in the ice

and snow, I sleep.

On steppe or veld

or pampas dry,

beneath the grand,

enormous sky,

I make my humble,

bladed bed.

And where there’s level ground,

I spread.

【本集節目是由《鏡好聽》製作播出的《漫談英文詩》】

製作人：程遠茜 /錄音師：孫藝庭

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