天亮之隙 toward breaks of day 叶芝.pptVIP

Towards Break of Day W. B. Yeats A.N.Jeffares records that the poem is an actual record of the dreams experienced by the poet and his wife when they staying in the Powerscourt Arms Hotel, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, in January 1919. stanza 1 Was it the double of my dream The woman that by me lay Dreamed, or did we halve a dream Under the first cold gleam of day? halve vt.把…分成两半；把…减半；对分；平摊 stanza 2 I thought: “There is a waterfall Upon Ben Bulben side That all my childhood counted dear; Were I to travel far and wide I could not find a thing so dear.” My memories had magnified So many times childish delight. Benbulbin is a large rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland. 他的母亲（即威廉·巴特勒·叶芝的祖母）苏珊·玛丽·波雷克斯芬来自斯莱果郡（County Sligo）上一个盎格鲁－爱尔兰裔家族。诗人出生后不久，便迁至位于斯莱果的大家族中，他本人也一直认为是斯莱果郡孕育了自己真正的童年岁月。 stanza 3 I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild. Even accusing Heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch. ponderable：有价值的 stanza 4 I dreamed towards break of day, The cold blown spray in my nostril. But she that beside me lay Had watched in bitterer sleep The marvellous stag of Arthur, That lofty white stag, leap From mountain steep to steep. blown:喘气的 spray:喷雾 stag: 雄鹿 dream When two people meditate upon the one theme, who have established a supersensual link, they will invariably in my experience no matter how many miles apart, see pass before the minds eye complementary images that complete one another. One for instance may see a boat upon a still sea full of tumultuos people, and the other a boat full of motionless people upon a tumultuous sea. Even when the link is momenary and superficial this takes places, and sometimes includes within its range a considerable number of people.One for instance, will receive from a dream figure a ripe apple, another an unripe; one a lighted and one an unlighted candle and so on.