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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?' `; n# s' ?; p: ]/ v4 c! B
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)% |! ?/ w2 D) O n- i3 I
Translated by A.Z. Foreman
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8 [& `& O3 n% ?( r* MWhen you are old, at evening candle-lit,
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read out my verse and murmur "Ronsard writ1 `8 L( d H1 y E
this praise for me when I was beautiful."- `2 N' q! C2 ]2 B! O( Y
And not a maid but at the sound of it,
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will start awake, and bless love's benefit,
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I shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth,
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# S& t2 S H& z, X0 c9 g4 e% ubut you, a crone will crouch beside the hearth,
: m- t$ }5 p5 s2 s' d; g" c) D8 ] mourning my love and all your proud disdain.
7 D, F2 N# ?% l" t) R# G; JAnd what comes to-morrow who can say?9 I' U& }; V; v5 b! T
Live, pluck the roses of the world to-day.
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3 A0 e8 q. T# T! ? 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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