The original text is as follows,
English original
If I hadn't seen the sun
-Emily Dickinson
If I hadn't seen the sun
I can stand shadows.
But to light up a new wilderness
My wilderness has created—
Chinese translation
I could have put up with the darkness
If I hadn't seen the sun
However, the sunshine makes me desolate.
Become a new desolation
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Emily Dickinson (18301210-18may15) is a legendary American poet. Born into a lawyer's family. Life as a teenager was monotonous and quiet, and he received a formal religious education. From the age of twenty-five, she abandoned social women and stayed at home. She wrote poems in solitude for 30 years, leaving more than 1,700 poems. Only seven songs were published before her death, and the rest were published after her death, which was known by the world and became very famous. Dickinson's poems mainly focus on life interest, nature, life, faith, friendship and love. The poetic style is concise and graceful, with fresh conception, vivid and exquisite description, profound thought, strong cohesion and great originality.
She is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist poetry in the twentieth century. The most famous American poets are Irving, Whitman and Dickinson, the fathers of American literature. She locked a lot of poems in a box, which is her greatest gift to the world. Before her death, her works failed to win favor, but the incomprehension and misunderstanding of people around her did not diminish her rich creative talent at all. According to statistics, Emily's amazing creativity left over 1800 poems for the world, including the final version of 1775 poems and 25 newly discovered poems.