Maya Angelou诗一首：不做失败者，不做哭泣者

武夷山

不做失败者，不做哭泣者

玛雅.安杰卢

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“我最不愿意丢失东西”，

然后她低下了头，

“哪怕丢失一毛钱，我死了的心都有。

我没法解释，也不再开口。”

反正我最不愿意丢失东西。

“我曾丢了一个玩具娃娃，哭了整整七天。

她的眼睛能睁能闭，除了说话什么都会干。

我觉得，她是被一个专偷玩具娃娃的家伙偷走了。

我告诉你吧，损失东西对我就是灾难。”

“我曾有一块表，它起身自己走脱。

表盘上的12个数字显示一天的时刻。

我永远忘不了它呀，我所能说的只是

我非常痛恨损失任何物色。”

“如果丢了表和玩具我都落魄失魂，

你觉得我的感受会是怎样，如果失去心上人？

我可不是吓唬你啊，小姐，他是我晚上的欢乐源泉，

我的意思是说，让我放弃他绝对没门。”

No Loser, No Weeper

Maya Angelou

"I hate to lose something,"

then she bent her head, "

even a dime, I wish I was dead.

I can't explain it. No more to be said. '

Cept I hate to lose something.

"I lost a doll once and cried for a week.

She could open her eyes, and do all but speak.

I believe she was took, by some doll-snatching sneak.

I tell you, I hate to lose something. "

A watch of mine once, got up and walked away.

It had twelve numbers on it and for the time of day.

I'll never forget it and all I can say

Is I really hate to lose something. "

Now if I felt that way 'bout a watch and a toy,

What you think I feel 'bout my lover-boy?

I ain't threatening you, madam, but he is my evening's joy.

And I mean I really hate to lose something."

   网上查到的对该诗的分析如下：

In Maya Angelou's, "No Loser, No Weeper," one of her many poems, she describes the emotional state she endured growing up in the 1920's during the Depression, by using tone, diction, repetition, rhyme, and figurative language. Because of the suffering that she has endured as an African American Woman during the 1920's, Angelou's life made her far more than a loser or a weeper instead, she would be labeled a poet, an actress, a teacher, a playwright, dancer, author, and a survivor. In order to understand the success of Ms. Maya Angelo we must first understand her background.
Maya Angelo grew up with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, along with her brother. Angelo has experienced a lot of negative things in her life. The Great Depression, her parents' death, racism, being sexually abused at an early age, becoming a single mother in her middle teenage years and bad marriages. This period in Maya's life constitutes much of the pain that is included in many other poems.
In the poem, "No Loser, No Weeper," Maya describes how she just hates to lose something, whether is small like a watch or a toy. Moreover this poem is directed towards another female trying to steal her lover. Maya wants to make it clear to the woman not touch her "lover-boy." She explains her warning by stating that she hates to lose something "even a dime, I wish I was dead." We gather from that statement that losing something so small and worthless as a dime would make Maya wish she was dead is very serious and very threatening. This remark can be traced back to her background to when the trauma in her life made her think about suicide. Maya Angelo felt that if she did not speak that man who assaulted her would still be alive. She later solved that by not talking to anyone at all. She also explains how she lost a "doll once and cried for a week, the doll could open her eyes and do all but speak." The rhyming couplets in the poem makes the speaker of the poem sound calm and nonchalant about the whole matter of losing someone important and warning someone else to stay away. This part of the poem again can be related to her personal life because when her mother died she locked herself in a room and cried for an entire week and when she came out of the room she had a gray streak of hair in front of her head.
When Maya comments in the poem that "a watch of [hers] once got up and walked away. I'll never forget an all I can say..." is how she hates to lose something. She describes how she lost many people and things in her life and that she will never forget them no matter what and how she can still remember them in great detail. Finally, she emphasizes, that "now if I felt that way about a watch and a toy, what you think I feel about my love-boy? I ain't threatening you madam, but he's my evening's joy" Here she explains the whole poem. This poem is not about a dime, watch, or toy; instead it explains how she feels about losing a man because of another woman. We could speculate that if she cried for a small materialistic object imagine how she would react to losing a man that she really loves. So instead of going through the hurt and pain of losing something else that she cared about she expressing her feelings to the other woman in a playful that the man is taken and that she better stay away from him.
In conclusion, this poem is like so many of Maya Angelo's work. All negative things that she went through in her life gave her heartache. It gave her emotional and physical pain that brought her through the hardships in her life. It made her mind stronger to deal with tougher situations. It only shows that even though she went through so much in her life; for instance, this poem shows signs of depression, but at the ended of the poem she shows signs of getting stronger by expressing her feelings to the other woman and in nonchalant way that she wants her man and that no one is going to take him from her. Angelo always finds a way to take negative and brighten her life by making it positive

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