TA的每日心情 | 奋斗 2019-7-13 03:21 |
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$ x$ `" G( {/ z如果楼主知道叶芝读过下面这首诗,会不会心情好一点? [+ H8 l: M& J: _2 z5 h2 G
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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Sonnet to Helen1 [9 y% b3 ^8 Z3 p5 {
By Pierre de Ronsard (mid 16th cent)
3 I" p% V; G2 d' wTranslated by A.Z. Foreman
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When you are old, at evening candle-lit,* W2 x9 W9 E9 Y9 N$ w
beside the fire bending to your wool,
8 r! Q- b, w* Tread out my verse and murmur "Ronsard writ- ]9 L: s* u' R! A. B
this praise for me when I was beautiful."
O' a' b& F4 t0 TAnd not a maid but at the sound of it,
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will start awake, and bless love's benefit,9 ]- T: N$ j( z" n5 c/ ?! Q5 S
whose long fidelities bring Time to school.4 a, l! L7 |. p
I shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth,
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but you, a crone will crouch beside the hearth,
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! E: F: ]/ V! T! }And what comes to-morrow who can say?
; l1 w9 {# f# c1 BLive, pluck the roses of the world to-day.3 X9 ^, N: U' q
( [$ X5 V* z4 W* l5 r2 D" d 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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