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： 延伸閱讀：My life closed twice before its close  My life closed twice before its close;It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveilA third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceiveAs 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 scarceAdjusted in the TombWhen One who died for Truth, was lainIn 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 GettysburgAnd 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 placesothers can’t,where wind is highand water scant.I drink the rain,I eat the sun;before the prairie windsI run.I see, I sprout,I grow, I creep,and in the iceand snow, I sleep.On steppe or veldor 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：孫藝庭圖片來源：Shutterstock 想聽愛聽就在鏡好聽，訂閱《鏡好聽》並下載 APP 收聽，只給你最好的聲音。| 立即訂閱：https://www.mirrorvoice.com.tw/mirrorvoice-plus| 免費下載 APP：https://mirrormediafb.pros.is/LY67K| Facebook：https://facebook.com/mirrorvoice2019| Instagram：https://instagram.com/mirror_voice| 合作、節目建議歡迎來信：[email protected]