TA的每日心情 | 奋斗 2019-7-13 03:21 |
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4 n! `2 j6 H7 |1 r如果楼主知道叶芝读过下面这首诗,会不会心情好一点?
* n q, ^5 N9 {! k: u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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By Pierre de Ronsard (mid 16th cent)
7 B- J: g3 _ |Translated by A.Z. Foreman/ m$ X- N1 x; C! R$ U: U, F$ J
3 j) s) r4 S$ FWhen you are old, at evening candle-lit,
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; L* @6 q) E8 |& e& H* R) cread out my verse and murmur "Ronsard writ9 l/ O: U: b. c" G8 T. x2 H
this praise for me when I was beautiful."
" }. _, o4 ^/ z9 ~; J( Q1 ?And not a maid but at the sound of it," M/ k8 g; ?# p
though nodding at the stitch on broidered stool,
5 c/ ~* T+ p' A. T0 X% ?/ o: Qwill start awake, and bless love's benefit,
! e0 r f( G$ `2 S0 l5 s whose long fidelities bring Time to school.
2 q$ s' r6 ?2 FI shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth,
- a) N- r% p7 F# ] by myrtle-shade in quiet after pain,
( O) E2 ]4 S3 ~0 |4 q" z6 f, sbut you, a crone will crouch beside the hearth,
0 T9 F6 N. `7 J* E mourning my love and all your proud disdain., V' l+ W9 X6 I1 K/ n2 W9 Q" }
And what comes to-morrow who can say?) M6 y# r; ?* e" W) u% _
Live, pluck the roses of the world to-day.3 ~- O$ i1 t% {' V+ Z, j5 Y; A8 w
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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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