《对岸》选自印度近代大诗人泰戈尔的诗集《新 月集》。作者在悼亡夫人逝世、儿女夭亡的悲痛日子 里,怀着对孩子深厚的慈爱、对自己童年生活的回忆, 写下了这部著名的散文诗集。在《对岸》中,孩子对对 岸的渴想,实际表现的是作者对理想世界的向往追求。 那里的人勤劳质朴,那里又是如此纯净,就连池塘边的 软泥也十分洁净,那里充满自由,芦苇、水鸟们各得其 所,愉快生活,那里还没有被都市异化。总而言之,那里 是真、善、美的彼岸。作者把这种理想通过一个孩子天 “The Other Side” is selected from the poetry collection “New Moonset” by Indian modern poet Tagore. The author wrote this famous collection of prose poems in the days of the death of Madame Fu and the grief of his sons and daughters, with deep love for their children and memories of their childhood. In “The Other Side”, the children’s thirst for the opposite shore actually expresses the author’s longing for the ideal world. The people there are hardworking and pristine, and there is such purity. Even the mud on the side of the pond is very clean. It is full of freedom. The reeds and waterbirds have their own places and live happily, and there is no urban alienation yet. In short, there is the other side of truth, goodness, and beauty. The author takes this ideal through a child’s day