葉慈詩二首 2 Poems by Yeats
2007-09-15 13:13:19
玩偶
玩偶匠屋裡的一個玩偶
看著搖籃大聲哭訴：
“這是對我們的侮辱。”
可是最年長的玩偶，
因被留作樣品，見過
幾代同類，他的尖叫
蓋過了整個架子：“雖說
沒人能夠舉報
此地的罪惡，
那對男女竟把個
又吵又髒的東西帶到這兒，
丟盡了我們的臉。”
聽到他咕噥又伸懶腰，
玩偶匠的妻子意識到
她丈夫聽見了那壞蛋的話，
於是在他的座椅扶手旁蹲下，
頭倚著他的肩，
對著他的耳朵低聲叨念：
“親愛的，親愛的，哎呀，
那可是意外啊。”
The Dolls
A doll in the doll-maker's house
Looks at the cradle and bawls:
'That is an insult to us.'
But the oldest of all the dolls
Who had seen, being kept for show,
Generations of his sort,
Out-screams the whole shelf: 'Although
There's not a man can report
Evil of this place,
The man and the woman bring
Hither, to our disgrace,
A noisy and filthy thing.'
Hearing him groan and stretch
The doll-maker's wife is aware
Her husband has heard the wretch,
And crouched by the arm of his chair,
She murmurs into his ear,
Head upon shoulder leant:
'My dear, my dear, oh dear,
It was an accident.'
外衣
我為我的歌做了件外衣，
從下擺到領子
都繡滿了
古老的神話故事；
卻被愚人們搶去，
在世人面前穿起，
仿佛那是出自他們之手。
歌啊，就讓他們拿去，
因為赤身行走
才更為進取。
譯者按：
1913年，葉慈結識了龐德，後者的朝氣和他後來倡導的意像主義運動，使中年的葉慈，在半迎半拒的心態下，接受新一代的影響。於是葉慈的詩從早期的浪漫主義和愛爾蘭神話中解脫出來，開始呈現一種正視現實的簡樸和誠摯的詩風。
A Coat
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.
原載《詩天空》
