英文诗歌鉴赏
英文诗歌赏析
导引
诗歌是一种精美的艺术，趣味高一点的人一般都喜欢诗歌。受过良好教育的中国人都会背诵若干首古诗。现在人们很重视学习英文，学习英文，视野也应宽阔一些，也应当对英文诗歌多少有些领略才好。中国文学中诗歌成就极大，英语文学中，诗歌也极其丰富多彩。语言艺术的最高表现形式在诗歌。如果只是知道实用性的英文，只学习商业英文、法律英文等英文，对英语文学毫无修养，对英文诗歌一无所知，那将是一个不小的遗憾，将会影响到审美能力的发展和提高，
学英文而不懂英文诗歌，不仅从审美角度看是一个遗憾，而且从英语学习这一角度看，不学一些英文诗歌，其英语水平也达不到很高的层次。诗歌语言最精炼，语汇最丰富，表达形式最精美，语言的色调最细腻。如果对诗歌有一定修养，其语言表达能力会大大提高。试想一个学汉语的人，如果对唐诗宋词一无所知，其汉语水平不会很高。学英语者也是如此。如果他对莎士比亚、弥尔顿、华兹华斯、拜伦、雪莱、济慈等人的著名诗篇一窍不通，其英文水平也不会很高。
总之，有一定英语基础的人不能不更上一层楼，读一点英文诗。这不仅有助于提高我们的文学素养，丰富我们的审美能力，也有助于提高我们的英语水平。
英诗基础知识
读英文诗歌相当不容易。其中的主要原因是诗歌有其独特的语言特点和表达方式，与散文有明显区别。为更好地欣赏英文诗歌，很有必要了解一些相关的基本知识。这方面的知识极其细致，以下只介绍一些最基本的。
一节奏
诗歌是具有音乐性的语言。音乐作品的最大特点之一是音符的流动是有节奏的。所谓节
奏就是强拍和弱拍按一定的形式配合起来，有规律地反复出现。懂点音乐的人都知道，音乐中基本的节奏有两种，即强——弱（2/4拍）和强——弱——弱（3/4拍）。举两个简单的例子：《东方红》的节奏就是强——弱：
5 56│2 —│1 16│2 —│5 5│6i 65│1 16│2 —│
《新年好》（HAPPY NEW YEAR）这首儿歌的节奏是强——弱——弱：
11 1 5 │33 3 1│13 5 5 │43 2 —│23 4 4 │32 3 1│13 2 5│72 1 —│
中国古诗有节奏。其节奏主要是通过汉字特有的声调表现出来的。传统汉语中的声调有四：平、上、去、入。平声称“平声”，上、去、入三声统称仄声。平声与仄声结合起来反复出现，就是中国诗歌的节奏。如一首五言绝句，其最常见的节奏是：
仄仄平平仄，平平仄仄平。
平平平仄仄，仄仄仄平平。
王之涣《等鹳雀楼》：白日依山尽，黄河入海流。欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。此诗即是这样的节奏。其中“欲”字是仄声，与格式不合。但根据格律要求，诗行中的第一字可平可仄。
英文诗歌也有节奏。英文没有平声、仄声之分，但有重读轻读音节之分，其节奏是通过重读音节与轻读音节表现出来的。一个重读音节与一个或两个轻读音节按一定的模式搭配起来，有规律地反复出现就是英文诗歌的节奏。
我们知道凡是有两个以上音节的英文单词，都有重读音节与轻读音节之分，在一句话中，根据语法、语调、语意的要求，有些词也要重读，有些要轻读。如he went to town to buy a book.. I’m glad to hear the news. 英文中有重读和轻读之分，重读的音节和轻读的音节，按一定模式配合起来，反复再现，组成诗句，听起来起伏跌宕，抑扬顿挫，就形成了诗歌的节奏。多音节单词有重音和次重音，次重音根据节奏既可视为重读，也可视为轻读。读下面这两句诗：
Alone │she cuts │and binds│ the grain,
And sings │a me│lancho│ly strain.
这两行诗的重读与轻读的固定搭配模式是：轻——重。在每行中再现四次，这样就形成了这两行诗的节奏。某种固定的轻重搭配叫“音步”（foot），相当与乐谱中的“小节”。一轻一重，就是这两行诗的音步。一行诗中轻重搭配出现的次数叫音步数，这两行诗的音步数都是四，所以就称其为四音步诗。
二常见的音步类型
音步是轻读与重读构成的。根据重读与轻读搭配的方式的不同，可以划分出不同的音步类型。音步类型不同，节奏自然也不同。最常见的音步类型有以下四种：
（一）抑扬格
如果一个音步中有两个音节，前者为轻，后者为重，则这种音步叫抑扬格音步，其专业术语是（iamb, iambic.）。轻读是“抑”，重读是“扬”，一轻一重，故称抑扬格。
英语中有大量的单词，其发音都是一轻一重，如adore, excite, above, around, appear, besides, attack, supply, believe, return等，所以用英语写诗，用抑扬格就很便利。也就是说，抑扬格很符合英语的发音规律。因此，在英文诗歌中用得最多的便是抑扬格，百分之九十的英文诗都是用抑扬格写成的。前面的那两句诗就是抑扬格诗。
（二）扬抑格
如果一个音步中有两个音节，前者为重，后者为轻，则这种音步叫扬抑格音步，其专业术语是（trochee, trochaic.）。重读是“扬”，轻读是“抑”，一重一轻，故称扬抑格。与抑扬格恰好相反。
英语中也有一批其读音为一重一轻的单词，如Happy, many, holy, yonder, headlong, flaming, upper, grandeur, failing等。写扬抑格的诗，此类词正好合适。但这类词在英语中其数量不及前面的那些多，与英文的语言规律不十分吻合，所以扬抑格诗不多。举两句诗例：Present │mirth has │present │laughter
Shakespeare
Shake your │chains to │earth like │dew
Shelley
（三）抑抑扬格
抑抑扬格含三个音节，即轻——轻——重，专门术语是：Anapaest, anapaestic
例词：
cavalier, intercede, disbelieve, reappear, disapprove, indistinct, on the hill.
例句：
拜伦的以下四行诗是抑抑扬格：
The Assyr│ian came down │like the wolf │on the fold,
And his coh│orts were glea│ming in purp│le and gold;
And the sheen│ of their spears │was like stars │on the sea,
When the blue │waves rolls night│ly on deep │Galilee.
——Destruction of Sennacherib
这是拜伦写的描述古代亚述人围攻耶路撒冷，被瘟疫所袭的诗的一节。第四行第二音步中的waves 一词可轻可重。诗题中的Sennacherib 是亚述国王。fold 指羊群，purple and gold 描写亚述军队的服饰，Galilee，巴勒斯坦北部的加利利湖。cohorts军团，sheen，光芒。
（四）扬抑抑格
重——轻——轻是扬抑抑格，专门术语是：dactyl, dactylic.
例词：
happily, merciful, eloquent, messenger, merrily, properly, accident, quantity.
例句：
Dragging the │corn by her │golden hair.
Davies: the villain.
英文诗歌中的音步类型有十几种之多，常见者即此四种，第一种则最常见。此外诗句中也常有抑抑格（pyrrhic[/peirik]和扬扬格(spondee[/sp :ndi])出现。
需要说明的是，这些音步类型只是理论上的分析，实际上，一首诗仅用一种音步类型写，这种情况极少见，大多是以某一种为主，同时穿插其他类型。如果一首诗只含有一种音步，就会显得非常单调机械。一首诗只要是以某种类型为主的，尽管有其他类型穿插其中，也称此诗为某某格。如，以抑扬格为主要节奏写成的，就称此诗为抑扬格诗。现代兴起的一些自由诗（FREE VERSE），不受这些格律的限制。
三诗行
（一）一诗行不一定是一个完整的句字。
英文诗每行的第一个字母都大写，但是一诗行不一定是一个完整的句子，不一定能表达一个完整的意思。有时候，一行诗正好是一句，有时两行甚至许多行才构成一个意思完整的句子。前者叫end-stopped line（结句行），后者叫run-on line.（跨行句）。这是英文诗与中国诗的最大区别之一。中国诗歌都是一行表达一个完整的意思。看下面一节诗：
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
前两行是end-stopped line，后两行是run-on line。读跨行句诗，行末停顿较短。
跨行句在英文诗歌中极其普遍，有时十来行才成一完整句子。刚学英文诗的人，对此往往不习惯。对此我们需加注意。
（二）诗行的长短以音步数目计算：
英文诗行的长度范围一般是一音步——五音步。六、七、八音步的诗行也有，但不多。
最多的是四音步、五音步的诗。
（各种长短诗行的专门术语：一音步诗：monometer 二音步诗：dimeter三音步诗：trimeter四音步诗：tetrameter 五音步诗：pentameter 六音步诗：hexameter 七音步诗：heptameter八音步诗：octameter.）
在分析一首诗的格律时，既要考律此诗的基本音步类型，也要考律此诗中诗行的音步数目。看下面的一首短诗：
An EMPTY HOUSE
Alexander Pope
You beat│your pate, │and fan│cy wit │will come:
Knock as│you please, │there’s no│body│at home.
（你拍拍脑袋，以为灵感马上就来。可任你怎么敲打，也无人把门打开。pate，脑袋。fancy，动词：以为，想象。）
此诗的基本音步类型是抑扬格，每行五音步。因此称此诗的格律是“抑扬格五音步”（iambic pentameter）。一首诗的音步类型和诗行所含的音步数目构成此诗的格律（meter）。
四压韵（rhyme）
英文诗一般都押运韵。
（一）全韵与半韵（full rhyme and half rhyme）。
全韵是严格的押韵，其要求是：
（1）韵要押在重读音节上，其元音应相同；
（2）元音前的辅音应不同；
（3）如果元音之后有辅音，应相同。
（4）重读音节之后如有轻读音节，也应相同。
下面几对词都符合全韵的标准：
why---sigh; hate---late; fight---delight; powers---flowers; today---away; ending---bending.
如果仅是元音字母相同，读音不同，不符合全韵：如:
blood----hood; there---here; gone---alone; daughter----laughter.
这种情形被称为“眼韵”（eye rhyme），虽然诗人有时用之，但不是真正的押韵。
仅是辅音相同或仅是元音相同的属半韵：
元音不同，其前后的辅音相同，这叫谐辅韵（consonance）如：black, block; creak, croak; reader, rider; despise, dispose.
元音相同，其后的辅音相同者叫谐元韵（assonance），如lake, fate; time, mind.
（二）尾韵与行内韵(end rhyme and internal rhyme)
押在诗行最后一个重读音节上，叫尾韵。这是英文诗歌最常见的押韵部位。诗行中间停顿处的重读音节与该行最后一个重读音节押韵者，叫行内韵。如：
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king;
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
（三）男韵与女韵((masculine rhyme and feminine rhyme)
所押的韵音局限于诗行中重读的末尾音节上，称男韵，也叫单韵，听起来强劲有力。如：late, fate; hill, fill; enjoy, destroy.
押韵押在两个音节上，后一音节非重读音节，称女韵，也叫双韵，听起来或轻快，或幽婉。如：lighting, fighting; motion, ocean; wining, beginning.
看下面一节诗：
I am coming, little maiden,
With the pleasant sunshine laden;
With the honey for the bee,
With the blossom for the tree.
前两行押女韵，后两行押男韵。
也有不少英文诗是不押韵的，不押韵的诗称无韵诗或白体诗（blank verse）。多用在戏剧和叙事诗中。莎士比亚的戏剧和弥尔顿的Paradise Lost 都是用blank verse写成的。押韵的诗叫rhymed verse。无韵诗不同与自由诗。无韵诗虽不押韵，但是有固定节奏，以扬抑格五音步最常见。自由诗节奏不固定，如同白话。
诗选及讲解
A SELECTION OF ENGLISH POETRY
FOR AN OPTIONAL COURSE OF THE UNDERGRADUADTES
William Shakespeare（1564—1616）
作者简介：
剧作家、诗人。一生创作三十七部戏剧，154首十四行诗。其十四行诗大部分是献给一位贵族青年，有二十余篇则是献给一位“黑肤女士”（the dark lady）.
1 Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
注释:
Compare ···to 把什么比做什么。
Thou, thee 第二人称单数代词，前者主格，后者宾格。现已为you 所取代。其所有格是thy，或thine, 即现代英语的your。
Art = are. 16、17世纪时与thou连用。
Temperate: 来自拉丁文temperātus，读时为符合押韵规则，可将重音放后。
Shake：shake off。
Lease 租借期限，此处指夏天的长度。
Hath 与第三人称单数连用，相当于现代英语的has。
Dimmed: clouded.
Fair form fair: beautiful thing from beauty. 前后fair意义不同。Declines from beauty。
Chance：极缘，时运，命运。
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,/By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d：每一个美人总要失去美貌，即使没有突发的以外事件，也逃不过自然界生老病死
的变迁。Sometimes: 有的版本作“sometime”: at some unspecified time.
Untrimm’d: untrimmed. 本意为剥去美观的衣服等，此处隐喻夺去美貌等。
Fair thou ow’st: beauty you own. 莎士比亚时代，owe与own通用。古英语第二人称单数后加-st或-est
His shade：shadow of death.
“Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade”：“死神无从夸口，说你在他的阴影里徘徊”。
To time thou grow’st: you grow as long as time lasts. 与时间同寿。Grow to = be incorporated with.
内容解析：
此诗的发展变化：以人比夏天开始，以人胜自然终结。前四行说明人比夏天更美更温和；中四行发展了这个意思，引到驻颜无术的感慨；第三组则新意突起，推翻前言，终于于胜利的末两行作结。此诗表达了这样一种思想：美丽的事物可以依靠文学的力量而永远不朽；文学是人所创造的，因此这有宣告了人的不朽。因此此诗不是一般的爱情诗。
形式解析：
sonnet：十四行诗，即“商籁体”诗。此诗体起源不明，最早的例子出现于13世纪，16世纪在英国出现。主要有意大利式和英国式两种变体。意大利诗人Petrarch [/petra:k]用此诗体最精熟，故意大利式又称Petrarchan sonnet。英国式由莎士比亚创立，又称Shakespearean sonnet.
意大利式分前八行、后六行。韵尾是abba, abba; cde, dcd.。莎士比亚式十四行诗，层次上分前四行，中四行，后四行和结尾两行。韵尾为：abab, cdcd, efef, gg。格律是抑扬格五音步。
Shall I│compare│ thee to │a sum│mer’s day? ( a)
Thou art │more love│ly and │more tem│perate -: ( b)
Rough winds │do shake │the dar│ling buds │of May, (a)
And sum│mer’s lease│ hath all │too short│ a date: (b) Sometimes │too hot│ the eye │of hea│ven shines, (c)
And of│ten is │his gold │comple│xion dimmed; (d)
And eve│ry fair │from fair │sometimes │declines, (c)
By chance, │or na│ture’s chan│ging course, │ untrimm’d; (d) But thy │eter│nal sum│mer shall │not fade, (e)
Nor lose│ posses│sion of │that fair│ thou ow’st; (f)
Nor shall│ Death brag │thou wan│der’st in│ his shade, (e) When in │eter│nal lines │to time│ thou grow’st. (f)
So long│ as men │can breathe │or eyes │can see, (g)
So long │lives this, │ and this │gives life│ to thee. (g)
参考译文：
能不能让我把你比拟作夏日？
你可是更加温和，更加可爱：
狂风会吹落五月的好花儿，
夏季的生命又未免结束得太快：
有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热，
他那金彩的脸色也会被遮暗；
每一样美呀，总会离开美而凋落，
被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残；
但是你永久的夏天决不会凋枯，
你永远不会失去你美的仪态；
死神夸不着你在他影子里踯躅，
你将在不朽的诗中与时间同在；
只要人类在呼吸，眼睛看得见，
我这诗就活着，使你的生命绵延。（屠岸）2 Spring
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every three,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo,
Cuckoo, cuckoo! Oh word of fear Unpleasing to a married ear!
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every three,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo,
Cuckoo, cuckoo! Oh word of fear
Unpleasing to a married ear!
------Comedy: Love’s Labour Lost
剧情：拿伐Navarre [n /va: ]国王与其几位朝臣立誓三年之内摒弃一切世俗的快乐，致力于研究学问。其中的一条是：三年之中不可与女子交谈一次。不久法国公主携几名侍女来办理国务，国王和朝臣门守不住自己的誓言，爱上了这几个女子。最后公主的父亲去世，公主要持戒三年，国王和朝臣们的求爱也化为泡影。此诗在此剧之结尾处。
注释：
daisies pied：杂色的雏菊。
lady-smock：也作lady’s-smock 花名：布谷鸟剪秋罗。Smock：〈古〉女衬衣，罩衣。
cuckoo-buds of yellow hue：黄色的杜鹃花。hue：颜色。
Cuckoo：[/kuku:] 布谷鸟的叫声，与/cuckold（奸妇的丈夫）一词谐音。
shepherds [/ ep d]
pipe on oaten straws：拿燕麦杆吹哨子。
turtles tread：斑鸠交配。Turtle：〈古〉斑鸠，=turtledove。Tread：（雄鸟）与（雌鸟）交配。
rooks and daws：白嘴鸦和穴鸟。
内容解析：
春天里百花争艳，万象更新，情人们沉醉于甜蜜的爱情之中。但树梢上布谷鸟的叫声却似乎在不断提醒人们：爱情并不可考。此诗有反讽意味，与剧情一致。英国诗人甘贝尔（Thomas Campbell，1777—1844）在Freedom and Love一诗中说：“Love has bliss, but love has
ruining/ Other smiles may make you fickle/ Tears for other charm may trickle。”
形式解析：抑扬格四音步，韵式：abab cc d ee; fgfg hh d ee
When dai│sies pied │and vio│lets blue
And la│dy-smocks│ all sil│ver-white
And cu│ckoo-buds │of ye│llow hue
Do paint │he mea│dows with│ delight,
The cu│ckoo then, │on eve│ry three,
Mocks mar│ried men; │for thus │sings he,
Cuckoo,
Cuckoo, │cuckoo! │Oh word│ of fear
Unplea│sing to│ a mar│ried ear!
When she│pherds pipe │on oa│ten straws,
And mer│ry larks│ are plough │men’s clocks,
When turt│les tread, │ and rooks, │and daws,
And mai│dens bleach │their sum│mer socks,
The cu│ckoo then, │on eve│ry three,
Mocks mar│ried men; │for thus │sings he,
Cuckoo,
Cuckoo, │cuckoo! │Oh word │of fear
Unplea│sing to│ a mar│ried ear!
参考译文：
当杂色的雏菊开遍牧场，
蓝的紫罗蓝，白的美人衫，
还有那杜鹃花吐蕾娇黄，
描出了一片广大的欣欢；
听杜鹃在每一株树上叫，
把那娶了妻的男人讥笑：
咯咕！
咯咕！咯咕！啊，可怕的声音！
害得做丈夫的肉跳心惊。
当无愁的牧童口吹麦笛，
清晨的云雀惊醒了农人，
斑鸠乌鸦都在觅侣求匹，
女郎们漂洗夏季的衣群；
听杜鹃在每一株树上叫，
把那娶了妻的男人讥笑：
咯咕！
咯咕！咯咕！啊，可怕的声音！
害得做丈夫的肉跳心惊。（朱生豪）
3 To Be or Not To Be
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die—to sleep—
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die—to sleep.
To sleep—perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’ contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death—
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns—puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ill we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
剧情：
哈娒莱特》是莎士比亚重要剧作之一，写于1601年。剧中的主人公是丹麦王子Hamlit。哈姆莱特的父亲，即丹麦国王，被哈姆莱特的叔父Claudius秘密害死，不到两个月，又与哈姆莱特的母亲，即王后，结婚。还窃取了王位。哈姆莱特的叔父Caudius是个坏透顶了的人。哈姆莱特则是一位有理想、有道德的人，他决心要为父亲报仇。为了不被看出来，他装成疯子。哈姆莱特要为父亲报仇，但中间有其母亲穿插其间，这使他心情极其复杂，于是整日心情抑郁，产生了厌世情绪。于是真的有点疯疯颠颠了。剧情很曲折，大家可在课外找有关资料读。推荐读读英汉对照本《莎士比亚戏剧故事》（T ales from Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, 萧乾、文洁若翻译。商务印书馆1984年出版。）
这段独白就是哈姆莱特在极度困惑、不知所措的心情下道出的，谈到了生与死、思考与行动、报复与宽容等等人生中的永恒矛盾，批判了现实世界的黑暗，富有深刻的哲理意味。出现在原剧第三幕第一场。
注释：
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: 狂暴命运的矢石交攻。sling: 投石器，弹
弓；投掷，打击一击.
To die—to sleep—No more：死就是睡眠，如此而已。
by a sleep to say we end/The heartache：to say (that) by a sleep we end the heartache the thousand natural shocks/That flesh is heir to: 无数要承受的皮肉之苦，与“heartache”相对。Be heir to: 要继承或承受的。
’tis a consummation/Devoutly to be wished. 那正是求之不得的完美结局。Consummation：final settlement of everything.
To sleep—perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub! 睡眠也许要做梦，嗨，那就成问题了。Perchance：perhaps. Rub: 摩擦，障碍。
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause. “what dreams may come”这一名词从句是主语，give 是谓语。Shuffled off：摆脱，脱去。mortal coil：earthly turmoil.人世的纷扰。
There’s the respect /That makes calamity of so long life. 这一顾虑使漫长岁月成了灾难。Respect: attention, consideration. 顾虑，考虑。”without respect to the results”不顾后果。
the whips and scorns of time: 人世的鞭挞和嘲弄。Time: the times, 时世
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’ contumely: 压迫者的凌辱，傲慢者的冷眼。
do sb. Wrong, do wrong to sb. Contumely [/k ] insolent treatment. 无礼对待。
The pangs of despised love：失恋的痛苦。Pang：痛苦。Despised 之重音在第一音节。
the spurns/That patient merit of the unworthy takes：忍让的有德才者从小人那里受到的排挤。Of: from; spurn: contemptuous rejection，一脚踢开; the unworthy: 小人。
Quietus [kai/i:t s]: acquittance, release, 卸去（义务、责任）
A bare bodkin: a mere poniard. 短剑，匕首。
Fardels: bundles, burdens.
Grunt: groan, 哼，呻吟.
Bourn: 领域
Conscience: 思考，顾虑，良心。
sicklied o’er：sickly: 使出现病态
the pale cast of thought: 惨白的一层思虑的病容。Cast：tinge, shade of color. Thought: 思虑，顾虑，melancholy, despondency.
pith and moment：vigour and importance. Pith: 体力、气力、精力，（文章的）力。1604年版本中pith作pitch: height
with this regard: on this account
内容分析：这断独白是倾诉人生的根本苦闷和基本矛盾。受到压迫了，应该反抗，但往往结果是适得其反。事事忍让，却又心中不能平衡。干事业需果断有魄力，但也得深思熟虑，三思而行。但是顾虑太多，缩手缩脚又会疲软，行动不起来。人生在世，烦恼苦难不一而足，但死后的世界未比此岸世界好（古代人一般相信有彼岸世界“a life in the world to come is taken for granted.” New Concept English, vol.4, lesson, 60.）。人生就是这样充满了各种矛盾和无奈。
形式分析：
这是莎士比亚戏剧最著名独白(soliloquy)，用的是抑扬格五音步“白体诗”（BLANK VERSES）。
To be, │or not │to be: │that is │the ques│tion:
Whether│’tis nob│ler in │the mind │to suf│fer
The slings │and ar│rows of│ outra│geous for│tune
（以上三行多一音节，其到迟疑、沉思的效果。）
Or to│ take arms│against │a sea │of troubles,
And by op│posing │end them? │To die—│to sleep—
No more; │and by│ a sleep │to say │we end
The heart│ache, and│the thou│sand na│tural shocks That flesh│ is heir │to. ’tis│ a con│summa│tion
Devout│ly to│ be wished. │ To die│—to sleep.
To sleep│—perchance │to dream: │ay, there’s │the rub! For in │that sleep │of death│what dreams │may come When we│ have shuffled │off this│ mortal │coil,
Must give│ us pause. │ There’s the │respect
That makes │cala│mity │of so │long life.
For who │would bear│ the whips│ and scorns │of time, The oppres│sor’s wrong, │the proud│ man’ con│tumely, The pangs │of des│pised love, │the law’s │delay,
The in│solence │of of│fice, and │the spurns
That pa│tient me│rit of the │unwor│thy takes,
When he│ himself │might his │quie│tus make
With a│ bare bod│kin? Who │would far│dels bear,
To grunt │and sweat │under│ a wea│ry life,
But that│ the dread │of some│thing af│ter death—
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And I will make thee beds of Roses 我将为你用玫瑰作床， And a thousand fragrant posies, 还有上千支花束， A cap of flowers, and a kirtle 一顶鲜花编的花冠，一条长裙Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;绣满桃金娘的绿叶。 A gown made of the finest wool 用最细的羊毛织一条长袍， Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;羊毛剪自我们最可爱的羊羔， Fair lined slippers for the cold, 一双漂亮的衬绒软鞋为你御寒， With buckles of the purest gold; 上面有纯金的带扣。 A belt of straw and Ivy buds, 麦草和长春藤花蕾编的腰带， With Coral clasps and Amber studs： 珊瑚作钩，琥珀作扣， And if these pleasures may thee move,
西风颂英文赏析论文
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A Perfect Day When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thought, While the bells ring out with a carol gay, For the joy that the day has brought Do you think what the end of a perfect day Can mean to a tired heart, When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, And the dear friends have to part? Well, this is the end of a perfect day, Near the end a journey too; But it leaves a thought that is big and strong, with a wish that is kind and true. For memory has painted this perfect day, With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we’ve made
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Summary The speaker invokes the “wild West Wind”of autumn, which scatters the dead leaves and spreads seeds so that they may be nurtured by the spring, and asks that the wind, a “destroyer and preserver,”hear him. The speaker calls the wind the “dirge / Of the dying year,”and describes how it stirs up violent storms, and again implores it to hear him. The speaker says that the wind stirs the Mediterranean from “his summer dreams,”and cleaves the Atlantic into choppy chasms, making the “sapless foliage”of the ocean tremble, and asks for a third time that it hear him.The speaker says that if he were a dead leaf that the wind could bear, or a cloud it could carry, or a wave it could push, or even if he were, as a boy, “the comrade”of the wind’s “wandering over heaven,”then he would never have needed to pray to the wind and invoke its powers. He pleads with the wind to lift him “as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!”—for though he is like the wind at heart, untamable and proud—he is now chained and bowed with the weight of his hours upon the earth.The speaker asks the wind to “make me thy lyre,”to be his own Spirit, and to drive his thoughts across the universe, “like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth.”He asks the wind, by the incantation of this verse, to scatter his words among mankind, to be the “trumpet of a prophecy.”Speaking both in regard to the season and in regard to the effect upon mankind that he hopes his words to have, the speaker asks: “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”Form Each of the seven parts of “Ode to the West Wind”contains five stanzas—four three-line stanzas and a two-line couplet, all metered in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme in each part follows a pattern known as terza rima, the three-line rhyme scheme employed by Dante in his Divine Comedy. In the three-line terza rima stanza, the first and third lines rhyme, and the middle line does not; then the end sound of that middle line is employed as the rhyme for the first and third lines in the next stanza. The final couplet rhymes with the middle line of the last three-line stanza. Thus each of the seven parts of “Ode to the West Wind”follows this scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EE. Commentary The wispy, fluid terza rima of “Ode to the West Wind”finds Shelley taking a long thematic leap beyond the scope of “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,”and incorporating his own art into his meditation on beauty and the natural world. Shelley invokes the wind magically, describing its power and its role as both “destroyer and preserver,”and asks the wind to sweep him out of his torpor “as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!”In the fifth section, the poet then takes a remarkable turn, transforming the wind into a metaphor for his own art, the expressive capacity that drives “dead thoughts”like “withered leaves”over the universe, to “quicken a new birth”—that is, to quicken the coming of the spring. Here the spring season is a metaphor for a “spring”of human consciousness, imagination, liberty, or morality—all the things Shelley hoped his art could help to bring about in the human mind. Shelley asks the wind to be his spirit, and in the same movement he makes it his metaphorical spirit, his poetic faculty, which will play him like a musical instrument, the way the wind strums the leaves of the trees. The thematic implication is significant: whereas the older generation of Romantic poets viewed nature as a source of truth and authentic experience, the younger generation largely viewed nature as a source of beauty and aesthetic experience. In this poem, Shelley explicitly links nature with art by finding powerful natural metaphors with which to express his ideas about the power, import, quality, and ultimate effect of aesthetic expression
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