Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two

She touches these themes sometimes lightly, sometimes almost humorously, more often with weird and peculiar power; but she is never by any chance frivolous or trivial.

她触及这些主题时，时而轻盈，时而近乎幽默，更多时候带着诡异而独特的力量——却从不曾流于轻浮或琐屑。

Like impressionist pictures, or Wagner's rugged music, the very absence of conventional form challenges attention.

正如印象派的画作，或是瓦格纳那粗犷的音乐，正是因为缺少常规的形式，反倒引人注目。