玛丽安娜•穆尔《坟墓》

胡桑 · 发表于 2007-4-22 16:09:29

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>Moore, Marianne, 1887–1972, American poet, b. St. Louis, grad. Bryn Mawr College, 1909. She lived mostly in New York City, working first as a librarian and later as acting editor of the Dial (1925–29). Her poetry, constructed like a precise mosaic, is witty, intellectual, and often satirical. Volumes of her verse include Poems (1921), Observations (1924), What Are Years? (1941), Collected Poems (1951; Pulitzer Prize), O to Be a Dragon (1959), and Complete Poems (1967). Among her other works are the translation The Fables of La Fontaine (1954) and the essays Predilections (1955).
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>玛丽安娜•穆尔，1887-1972，美国诗人，生于圣路易斯安纳州，1909年毕业于布林莫尔学院。大部分时间生活在纽约，起初是一名图书管理员，之后成为《日晷》（1925-1929）代理主编。她的诗的构造犹如精致的镶嵌术，机智、知性，经常善于讽刺。诗集包括：《诗》（1921）、《观察》（1924）、《何年何月？》（1941）、《诗选》（1951，普利策奖）、《哦，做一条龙》（1959）以及《诗全集》（1967）。其他尚有翻译作品《拉封丹寓言集》（1954）和随笔集《嗜好》（1955）。
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> A Grave Marianne Moore Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have to it yourself, it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing, but you cannot stand in the middle of this; the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave. The first stand in a procession, each with an emerald turkey- foot at the top, reserved as their contours, saying nothing; repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. There are others besides you who have worn that look -- whose expression is no longer a protest; the fish no longer investigate them for their bones have not lasted: men lower nets, unconscious of the fact that they are desecrating a grave, and row quickly away -- the blades of the oars moving together like the feet of water-spiders as if there were no such thing as death. The wrinkles progress among themselves in a phalanx -- beautiful under networks of foam, and fade breathlessly while the sea rustles in and out of the seaweed; the birds swim through the air at top speed, emitting cat-calls as heretofore -- the tortoise-shell scourges about the feet of the cliffs, in motion beneath them; and the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell-buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink – in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness. 《坟墓》 （美国）玛丽安娜•穆尔 胡桑译
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>一个男人窥视大海， 从那些对它具有权力（就像你拥有的一样多）的人们那里 捕获风景， 想站在事物的中心是人的天性， 但你不能站在这中心； 海不能给出什么除了一个开凿得很好的坟墓。 前头的人站成一列，每人托着一只祖母绿火鸡—— 脚举到最高， 他们保持着形态，一声不吭； 但是，压制不是海最鲜明的 特征； 海是一名收藏家，快速归还一个贪婪的眼神。 站在你旁边的人已经磨损了那种眼神—— 他们不再具有反抗者的表情；鱼不再 探访他们，因为他们的骨头已经朽坏： 男人们降低渔网，丝毫没有意识到他们在 亵渎坟墓， 他们划着船很开地离去——桨叶 一起摇摆，就像水蜘蛛的脚，他们似乎 一点也不像死人。 水的皱纹成群结队地独自前行——那么美丽 在塑料渔网下面， 屏着气息消失，而海水在海草内外 沙沙作响； 鸟疾速游过天空，发出嘘嘘声 就像从前—— 龟甲在悬崖脚下相互撞击，十分兴奋 在鸟群的下面； 而海洋，在灯塔的跳动和装铃浮标的 声响中， 一如既往地上涨，看起来并不像那海洋，那里 落水之物都要沉没—— 即使它们在里边翻转、扭动，这无需决心和 意识。

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曾蒙 · 发表于 2007-5-24 17:12:46

穆尔的诗歌读过一些，很棒，胡桑翻译的很到位。

艺树 · 发表于 2008-7-25 12:33:32

好.

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