TA的每日心情 | 奋斗 2019-7-13 03:21 |
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如果楼主知道叶芝读过下面这首诗,会不会心情好一点?3 ^# a5 X6 g ^+ q J8 M1 F1 ]% b9 h2 k6 x
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。: C* J1 p) i4 f+ v& L7 j2 L- A
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Sonnet to Helen
( _8 v. O q, T& D$ W6 lBy Pierre de Ronsard (mid 16th cent)
+ }) i1 x( O' j+ W/ C% kTranslated by A.Z. Foreman* `/ Z& L) P+ [0 @1 I4 q
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When you are old, at evening candle-lit,& S) a4 v0 I" }1 ?
beside the fire bending to your wool,0 v. R2 v3 `4 N& q2 X# M
read out my verse and murmur "Ronsard writ
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8 C; Y1 z1 c! _% N2 s) F7 a4 }3 FAnd not a maid but at the sound of it,
2 D0 z3 b) n' r3 H/ U* S5 ?5 f though nodding at the stitch on broidered stool,
W( E# Z7 E, Z& I0 ^will start awake, and bless love's benefit,
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4 f" h8 M5 R/ F* W6 a% E _I shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth,# w1 k }$ j4 Q
by myrtle-shade in quiet after pain,
# U8 q4 j0 }4 b* R+ W7 ]but you, a crone will crouch beside the hearth,7 Y* J, O8 {0 L
mourning my love and all your proud disdain.
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Live, pluck the roses of the world to-day.
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- x1 d1 E$ w+ Q# q' ~& Z 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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