TA的每日心情 | 奋斗 2019-7-13 03:21 |
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1 p( K: h* T; g6 n0 _如果楼主知道叶芝读过下面这首诗,会不会心情好一点?
$ l9 U( W, U' J& S' M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。 f c1 S9 R0 i, \; v
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By Pierre de Ronsard (mid 16th cent)
5 }: U2 Z: {6 @8 C6 b/ o1 H0 @Translated by A.Z. Foreman
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When you are old, at evening candle-lit,/ f8 P9 _5 R2 w/ b7 g0 Y9 f
beside the fire bending to your wool,
+ N* [5 S. H2 V# n. Lread out my verse and murmur "Ronsard writ
" f& G K6 x8 v+ m# m! s+ `8 d3 p this praise for me when I was beautiful."
5 V- m* b. e5 z$ N+ VAnd not a maid but at the sound of it,
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will start awake, and bless love's benefit,
: N- l$ S% z* l whose long fidelities bring Time to school.
' l7 f% Z' O; e SI shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth,
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but you, a crone will crouch beside the hearth,4 X0 q) J% X* c/ i3 @1 R( Y
mourning my love and all your proud disdain.
3 g* ]1 V. g; QAnd what comes to-morrow who can say?
7 x q# T* V% i8 BLive, pluck the roses of the world to-day.
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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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