Song: How Sweet I Roam’d from Field to Field歌:我徜徉在芬芳的田野上

来源 :英语世界 | 被引量 : 0次 | 上传用户:zhangshuai824
下载到本地 , 更方便阅读
声明 : 本文档内容版权归属内容提供方 , 如果您对本文有版权争议 , 可与客服联系进行内容授权或下架
论文部分内容阅读
  How sweet I roam’d from field to field,
  And tasted all the summer’s pride,
  ‘Till I the prince of love beheld,
  Who in the sunny beams did glide!
  He shew’d me lilies for my hair,
  And blushing roses for my brow;
  He led me through his gardens fair,
  Where all his golden pleasures grow.
  With sweet May dews my wings were wet,
  And Phoebus fir’d my vocal rage;2
  He caught me in his silken net,
   And shut me in his golden cage.
  He loves to sit and hear me sing,
   Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;
  Then stretches out my golden wing,
  And mocks my loss of liberty.
  我徜徉在芬芳的田野上,
  吮吸着夏日的灿烂与辉煌。
  忽然间爱情王子临现,
  阳光下快乐地曼舞翩翩。
  他用百合扮我秀发妩媚,
  绯红的玫瑰妆我蛾眉。
  我们流连于他那美丽的花园,
  良辰美景盈满着心欢。
  五月的甘露沾湿我翅膀,
  日神点燃激情,我高歌引吭。
  他以丝绸做网,把我俘获,
  金笼将我牢牢囚锁。
  他席地而坐,聆听我歌声激昂,
  嬉戏中我们笑声飞扬;
  我为他舒展金色的羽翼,
  他却笑我已被自由抛弃。
  威廉·布莱克(1757—1827),英国著名的前浪漫主义诗人、版画家,也是英国文学史上最伟大的诗人之一,主要诗集有《天真之歌》(Songs of Innocence)和《经验之歌》(Songs of Experience)等。布莱克早期作品的语言风格多简洁明快,而中后期作品多深沉神秘,甚至哀伤。除诗歌外,其版画造诣亦很高。布莱克作为诗人与画家的地位在文学界和艺术界同等重要。
  《歌:我徜徉在芬芳的田野上》一诗出自布莱克自己印刷的第一本诗集《诗歌素描》(Poetical Sketches,1783)。全诗四节,每节四行,每行八个音节、四个音步(每两个音节构成一个音步),每个音步基本遵循抑扬(即轻重)的规律,每行重复四次,因此,本诗格律为抑扬格四音步。每个诗节的尾韵格式为ABAB,其中第一诗节第一行尾的field和第三行尾的beheld,第二诗节第二行尾的brow和第四行尾的grow为眼韵(eye rhyme),-eld和-ow分别在field及beheld和brow及grow中拼写相同,辅音相同,但元音发音不同。
  从传统意义来讲,诗歌描述了当夏天到来时爱情的美好,以及诗中“我”对爱情的向往,同时描述了夏天的烂漫背景和花草的甜美;花草的甜美也正是戀人心中爱情的甜美,这一切也都是夏天所赐。另一方面,从象征意义来看,也可以把爱情王子(the prince of love)理解为夏天;诗中的“我”对夏天的眷恋,正如“我”对心中爱情王子的迷恋,充满了激情和甜美。
  全诗既有夏天的明快优美,更有爱情的欢欣甜蜜。诗人有机地把夏天和爱情融合起来,寓爱于夏,寓夏于爱。诗歌语言通俗易懂,节奏感强烈,极富音乐美。
其他文献
辞旧迎新除硕鼠,富民强国效勤牛。2021年是阴历牛年,大家互相问候的新春祝福语“Happy牛Year!”可谓中西合璧、一语双关。牛的英语单词、习语典故以及“牛年”英译自然成为热门话题。  一、英语五“牛”  cattle泛指牛群,集合名词,单复同形。表示“牛”的头数,可用head(头)。  bull指未阉割的成年雄牛,也指体壮如牛的人。作为名词,bull有几个常见的习语:score the bul
期刊
One day, a father and his little son were going home. At this age, the boy was interested in all kinds of things and was always asking questions.  Now, he asked, “What’s the meaning of the word ‘Drunk
期刊
For a year, Matt Gaw hiked across the country at night—savouring the planets, the midnight light and the sense of earthly troubles shrinking into the universe. 一年來,马特·高徒步夜行,足迹遍布整个国家——品味星空、午夜之光和俗世烦恼消失在
期刊
My village was located in the Mekong Delta, the most fertile land of South Vietnam, providing more than eighty percent of the rice for the nation. Sixty miles south of Saigon, the area was called the
期刊
You’ve heard it on the news, from your dad, and from your friends in banking: COVID-19 is catapulting1 the U.S. into an economic recession. It’s a tumultuous2 time, but that doesn’t mean you have to a
期刊
For all its apparent looseness, this painting Spring Bouquet has a precise structure. The flowers spill over into the lower left-hand corner in joyous profusion, with an asymmetry as free and as wild
期刊
Increasing usage of the internet has also led to an increase in cyber-crimes/cyber-attacks. But how many types of cyber-attacks are you familiar with? In order to tackle cyber threats, you must be wel
期刊
I have received a lot of noes in my life. In elementary school, I wasn’t selected for the safety patrol team. In middle school, I was told I couldn’t take advanced math, even though my grades were exc
期刊
人类对于自然世界2的认识经历了漫长的过程。希腊哲学家德谟克利特在公元前450年认为,宇宙万物是由一种细微3而不可分割的物质构成。中国古代哲学家认为,世界是由金、木、水、火、土五种元素组成。到了近现代,又发现了质子、中子、夸克。  Human understanding of the physical world has gone through a lengthy development proc
期刊
From Do the Right Thing to Get Out, these films are required viewing. 從《为所应为》到《逃出绝命镇》,这些影片都在必看之列。  Storytelling is an exercise in empathy—it teaches us about worlds beyond our lived experience, bonds
期刊