TA的每日心情 | 奋斗 2019-7-13 03:21 |
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一个天才横空出世,脚下不知道有多少个被当做阶梯的过气天才。龙萨的诗符合文艺复兴的意气风发,现在读来很难代入;叶芝的诗更适合女权意识开始觉醒和高涨的维多利亚时代,现在读来也不过时。
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Sonnet to Helen
2 p" N A; N' XBy Pierre de Ronsard (mid 16th cent)
) a- i9 v( e! N* n, S1 l8 OTranslated by A.Z. Foreman
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When you are old, at evening candle-lit,
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0 Y/ E6 Q9 \1 E0 Gread out my verse and murmur "Ronsard writ
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And not a maid but at the sound of it," T# P( J* H0 Q5 \2 V7 a) ]0 s6 g
though nodding at the stitch on broidered stool," k* \7 E, o& t; t
will start awake, and bless love's benefit," f: K3 A* L7 U* }$ Q
whose long fidelities bring Time to school. l0 u" U/ t# t' m1 I9 z) `
I shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth,: y( X" W2 @. U9 E. \
by myrtle-shade in quiet after pain," p1 p$ Q4 s6 d p# }8 s
but you, a crone will crouch beside the hearth,
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And what comes to-morrow who can say?
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0 V" U, k8 P% L m* Y8 I 原作者龙萨Ronsard是法国首位诗歌王子(相当于英国的桂冠诗人),这首诗写于1552年,明世宗嘉靖三十一年,比光绪年间出道的叶芝早了三百多年。这是他的成名作,叶芝读的应该是法语版,这里就不拿出来了。两首诗的对比,是英语文学课上的一个好题目。网上有位老师布置了这个作业(链接在此),回答很踊跃,也很有启发。最近看了看高考题,要能这么出题,那才是进步。 |
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