Sunday, September 14, 2008

Viewing the Moon and Missing the Dear One Afar 望月懷遠



望月懷遠
--張九齡

【作者簡介】張九齡(公元678-740)字子壽,一名博物。其詩有溫柔敦厚之風。

望月懷遠

海上生明月,天涯共此時。
情人怨遙夜,竟夕起相思。
滅燭憐光滿,披衣覺露滋。
不堪盈手贈,還寢夢佳期。

Viewing the Moon and Missing the Dear One Afar

The moon is borne so bright above the sea
And bathes at once the distant one and me.
A lover hates the endless lonesome night,
For he would long for the one out of sight.
The candle blown out, I love moonlight more;
The dew damp, I dress to get out of door.
Since I can’t make a gift of the moonbeams,
I turn in, wishing to see you in dreams.

Translated by Kevin Min-hua Wu

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水調歌頭 (Prelude to the Melody of Water)



水調歌頭   蘇軾
丙辰中秋,歡飲達旦,大醉,作此篇兼懷子由

明月幾時有,把酒問青天。
不知天上宮闕,今夕是何年?
我欲乘風歸去,又恐瓊樓玉宇,高處不勝寒。
起舞弄清影,何似在人間?  

轉朱閣,低綺戶,照無眠。
不應有恨,何事長向別時圓?
人有悲歡離合,月有陰晴圓缺,此事古難全。
但願人長久,千里共嬋娟。


Poem written during the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1076
Tune: "Prelude to the Melody of Water" Su Shi (Su Tung Po)
(Translation by Prof. Xu Yuan-zhong, Peiking U)

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1076, I drank happily
till dawn and wrote this in my cups while thinking of Zi-you.

How long will the bright moon appear?
Wine-cup in hand, I ask the sky.
I do not know what time of year
It would be tonight in the palace on high.
Riding the wind, there I would fly,
Yet I fear the crystal palace would be
Far too high and cold for me.
I rise and dance, with my shadow I play.
On high as on earth, would it be as gay?

The moon goes round the mansion red
Through gauze-draped windows soft to shed
Her light upon the sleepless bed.
Against man she should have no spite.
Why then when people part is she oft full and bright?
Men have sorrow and joy, they part or meet again;
The moon may be bright or dim, she may wax or wane.
There has been nothing perfect since the olden days.
So let us wish that man
Will live long as he can!
Though miles apart, we'll share the beauty she displays.

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Thursday, August 07, 2008

七夕_ 我的愛像一朵豔紅玫瑰 My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose



在多年前讀英文系時的第一堂課裡,老師就選擇了十八世紀詩人羅勃.彭斯(Robert Burns, 1759-1796)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns) 的《我的愛像一朵豔紅玫瑰》(My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose)做為我們的啟蒙教材,玫瑰的意像與色澤,不但是少女美麗的臉龐、光鮮的肌膚與芬芳的氣息,更豐富了所有人的想像,接下來,大家都發現「海枯石爛的永恆盟誓」,其實不是我們的獨家發明,英國人的詩文創作世界也有相同的比喻,情歌本來就是這般美麗,心靈是東西相通的。

0 my luve is like a red, red rose, 呵,我的愛人像一朵豔紅的玫瑰,
that's newly sprung in June; 六月裡迎風初開;
0 my luve is like a melody, 呵,我的愛人像一支甜美的樂曲,
that's sweetly play'd in tune. 演奏得合弦又合拍。

As fair thou art, my bonnie lass, 我的好姑娘,你有多麼美,
so deep in luve am I; 我的愛就有多麼深;
And I will luve thee still, my dear, 親愛的,我要永遠地愛你,
till a' the seas gang dry. 直到大海乾涸水流盡。

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, 直到大海乾涸水流盡,親愛的,
and the rocks melt wi' the sun! 直到太陽把岩石熔成灰燼:
O I will luve thee still, my dear, 呵,親愛的,我將會永遠地愛你,
while the sands o' life shall run. 只要我一息猶存。

And fare thee weel, my only luve! 再見吧,我唯一的愛,
And fare thee weel awhile! 讓我們暫時分離!
And I will come again, my luve. 親愛的,我一定要回來,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile!
哪怕是遠行千里萬里。

Songs from YouTube:
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=h_gqctUZ4Oc&NR=1
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cBCQMWMbeMU

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

詩是一種積極的禪坐





湯姆士.瓊斯蒫摩 (Tomas Tranströmer, 1931—),瑞典著名詩人、心理學家及翻譯學者。一九五四年發表詩集《17首詩》(17 dikter)以來,轟動詩壇,在瑞典文學界居翹楚地位。至今共發表163首詩,除《17首詩》外的作品結集為《途中的祕密》(Hemligheter på vägen, 1958)、《半完成的天空》 (Klangar och spår, 1966)、《音色和足跡》、《看見黑暗》(Mörkseende, 1970)、《小路》、《波羅的海》(Östersjöar , 1974)、《真理的障礙》、《野蠻的廣場》、《為生者和死者》(För levande och döda)和《悲哀貢多拉》(Sorgegondolen, 1996) 十部詩集,作品被譯為丹麥文、匈牙利文、芬蘭語、英文等五十幾國語言。一九九○年患腦溢血導致右半身癱瘓後,不能言語,仍堅持純詩寫作。他被譽為當代歐洲詩壇最傑出的象徵主義和超現實主義大師。多次獲諾貝爾文學獎提名。

瓊斯蒫摩生於瑞典斯德哥爾摩,父親是新聞記者,但父母離異後,就與身為教師的母親相依為命。幼時常在Runmarö 島上消磨夏日時光,他詩的主題常圍繞在自然風景。瓊斯蒫摩在沉醉於音樂和繪畫之前,曾對考古和自然科學著迷,並一度想當探險家。一九五六年自斯德哥爾摩大學取得心理學學位,旋即服務於大學內的心理科技中心,於一九六○年擔任心理醫師,服務於Roxtuna的青少年看守所。自此而後,瓊斯蒫摩一邊從事心理醫師工作,一邊寫詩。一九八○年之後在一勞公機構擔任心理醫師。同時,他也是位業餘的音樂家,彈奏鋼琴和管風琴。

一九五四年的成名作《17首詩》收錄他所創作的無韻詩,而後瓊斯蒫摩不斷嘗試不同韻腳,但是大部分的詩都是格律鬆散的「自由詩」(free verse)。《途中的祕密》和《半完成的天空》寫的主題環繞在他常旅遊之地--巴爾幹島、西班牙、非洲和美國。他精湛的詩藝和他强有力的精神生活互為砥礪,使他的詩中充滿了對事物和生命秘密的敏銳感知和獨特發現。他詩中超現實意象像是一道門,門裡通往內心世界的靈視及玄思詮釋。《看見黑暗》(1970) 探討的是詩人週遭親人的生活、死亡、疾病和危機。瓊斯蒫摩的詩是以少勝多的典範。他通過超現實的突兀意象和素描般傳神的描寫,呈現出非凡的語言造型能力,展現了言簡意深的至高境界。

二○○一年為慶祝詩人七十大壽,Bonniers公司出版《航空信》(Air mail) 詩集,紀念詩人與好友羅柏.布萊(Robert Bly),亦是其詩作的譯者,自一九六四至一九九○年的往返信札。

在許多湯姆士.瓊斯蒫摩的詩作中,自然風景交錯,像海與陸地的爭戰,像日與夜的輪替,在在顯示生命中的衝突點,自然與人力的交戰,自由與禁錮,政治情勢的角力等。流動與改變形成瓊斯蒫摩詩作中的獨特風景。他的詩將被約定俗成的語言和觀點隔離的現實各部分聯繫起來,讓景象中大大小小的細節彼此撞擊,讓不同的文化和人物,自然與工業交錯一起等等。換句話說,瓊斯蒫摩的詩作讓貌似矛盾衝突的東西揭示内在的心靈聯繫。

我們發現生活中每個瞬間,往往是貧缺不足的。一旦它們完全主宰我們,我們就會陷入隔绝,毁敗的境地。湯姆士.瓊斯蒫摩的詩歌,我認為,正是對這一趨勢的抵抗。詩是一種積極的禪坐,它不是催眠,它是喚醒。

瓊斯蒫摩除獲頒邦能詩作獎 (Bonner Award for Poetry)、德國佩脫拉克獎(Petrarch Prize)、貝爾曼獎 (Bellman Prize)、瑞典皇家諾第克獎(The Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize)之外,一九九○年榮獲紐士塔達國際文學獎 (Neustadt International Prize for Literature),一九九七年威士特拉(Västerås)市還特別設立瓊斯蒫摩獎來讚揚他在文壇的貢獻。目前瓊斯蒫摩就與妻子莫妮卡(Monica)住在斯德哥爾摩西邊的威士特拉市。

已刊登於 2004 年 12月30日。〈詩是一種積極的禪坐--瑞典詩人: 托瑪斯.瓊斯蒫摩(Tomas Transtromer,1931-〉《自由時報》(自由副刊/國際文壇) 〈當代名家群像系列12 〉第47版。

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Saturday, April 15, 2006

The Road of Life

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was one of American's best-known and loved poets. His poems often begin in delight and end in wisdom, revealing universal significance in them, and call for readers' deep thought behind the poem's description of familiar scenes in their ordinary life. Moreover, this simplicity of language expressing the universal essence of life and the easy rhymes attract even more people to appreciate the meaning of life and become attached to his poems. No wonder he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943.

沒有走的路 (Robert Frost 1874-1963)

黃樹林裡分叉兩條路,只可惜我不能都踏行。
我,孤單的旅人,佇立良久,
極目眺望一條路的盡頭,看它隱沒在林叢深處。

於是我選擇了另一條路,一樣平直,
或許還值得,因為青草茵茵,還未被踩過,
若有過往人蹤,路的狀況會相差無幾。

那天早晨,兩條路都覆蓋在枯葉下,沒有踐踏的汙痕,
啊,原先那條路留給另一天吧,
明知一條路會引出另一條路,我懷疑我是否會回到原處。

在許多許多年以後,在某處,我會輕輕嘆息說:
黃樹林裡分叉兩條路,
而我,我選擇了較少人跡的一條,
使得一切多麼地不同。


Robert Frost (1874-1963)是美國一位最著名且最受喜愛的詩人。他的詩常有愉快的開頭和有智慧的結尾,其中透露著眾所皆知的意義,並引起讀者對於他的詩和自己日常生活的深思。此外,簡單的表達方式和輕鬆的韻腳,表達出生活的本質,甚至讓人們更欣賞生命的意義,變得喜愛他的詩。難怪他會獲得1924、1931、1937、1943年的普立茲詩文獎。

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