丹尼斯·奥德里斯科尔:我能理解你在获诺贝尔奖之后所写的第一批诗中那一首奥登风格的纪念约瑟夫·布罗茨基的诗。我很想知道与这首诗相关的何时、何地、如何写成的问题。谢默斯·希尼:在我一开始念着tumti,tumti,tumti,tum(重轻,重轻,重轻,重)时,我既是在遵从约瑟夫的幽默感,也是在遵从他对奥登的敬重。奥登写给叶芝的《哀歌》中最著名的部分是这么开始的:“大地,请接受一位尊贵的客人;/威廉·叶芝已躺下来安息”。我只是重拾了这个调子:“约瑟夫,是的,你知道敲击那节拍。/温 Denis Audley-Cole: I can understand the odeon verse of Joseph Brodsky in the first poems you wrote after winning the Nobel Prize. I really want to know when, where and how to write this poem. Seamsini: When I first read tumti, tumti, tumti, tum (light, heavy, heavy and heavy), I was following Joseph’s sense of humor and obeying him to Oden Respect. The most famous part of the ”lament“ that Oden wrote to Yeats begins: ”Earth, accept a distinguished guest;“ William Yeats has laid down and rests. ” I just regained this tone: "Joseph, yes, you know the beat that beat.