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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?9 L$ u) p7 e5 T: L
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。: o i; h8 Y6 u' G
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Sonnet to Helen
$ _% J7 E# g w' I7 q p! hBy Pierre de Ronsard (mid 16th cent)
$ l+ Q$ r n: N D! XTranslated by A.Z. Foreman
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0 C+ v" d/ c i$ Q+ q" tWhen you are old, at evening candle-lit,4 d8 D5 e2 M2 ~0 ]* [& w4 r
beside the fire bending to your wool,
- p! A5 G9 Q7 _) n" n. [read out my verse and murmur "Ronsard writ! _( M; a9 [3 E- e8 I- M
this praise for me when I was beautiful."( o# J" q+ o( C4 H% U
And not a maid but at the sound of it,1 D) P# b3 @. N# ]5 h
though nodding at the stitch on broidered stool,
! Y2 n# f8 L$ @5 H" vwill start awake, and bless love's benefit,* q6 t6 v1 c3 M- [! h- E) C
whose long fidelities bring Time to school.0 Q) M/ U, R! o& o
I shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth,3 |1 V; {+ J7 M' m: h1 r
by myrtle-shade in quiet after pain,( z, `" s7 N) U1 Z) ~
but you, a crone will crouch beside the hearth,- `, j) |1 W; Q. T% N5 J* t
mourning my love and all your proud disdain.: |- w+ _- n/ L+ P7 _( e
And what comes to-morrow who can say?
% _) X- N1 E4 M, M J* OLive, pluck the roses of the world to-day.
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& b$ S7 a# x" V7 g- m3 { 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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