纪念叶慈赏析.ppt

Earth, receive an honoured guest:William Yeats is laid to rest. 泥土呵，请接纳一个贵宾， 威廉·叶芝己永远安寝： Let the Irish vessel lieEmptied of its poetry. 让这爱尔兰的器皿歇下， 既然它的诗已尽倾洒。  The final section of the poem begins by literally burying Yeats so Auden can move on to addressing a larger audience. Time that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent, 时间对勇敢和天真的人 可以表示不能容忍， And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique. 也可以在一个星期里， 漠然对待一个美的躯体， Worships language and forgives Everyone by whom it lives; 却崇拜语言，把每个 使语言常活的人部宽赦 Pardons cowardice, conceit, Lays its honors at their feet. 还宽赦懦弱和自负． 把荣耀都向他们献出。 In the third stanza the poet pay more attention on the rhyme, such as forgives – lives, conceit- feet. whatever Yeats views may have been, and at times he was antidemocratic and appeared to favor dictatorships, but the ability to manipulate language trumps胜过 all. Time that with this strange excuse Pardoned Kipling and his views, 时间以这样奇怪的诡辩 原谅了吉卜林和他的观点， And will pardon Paul Claudel , Pardons him for writing well. 还将原谅保尔·克劳德， 原谅他写得比较出色。 In 1966 Auden deleted the bracketed stanzas. In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark, 黑略的恶梦把一切笼罩， 欧洲所有的恶犬在吠叫， And the living nations wait,Each sequestered使…分开 in its hate; 尚存的国家在等待， 各为自己的恨所隔开； It was the first poem he wrote after moving to America in the year that all of Europe would be plunged into the Second World War, all the dogs of Europe bark. The bleakness of the landscape inside the poem reflects the bleak lookout for Europe. Audens left wing views made him particularly opposed to the rise of fascism and he had worked against it during the Spanish civil war. The poem says something about the political situation but it is also about a man, a poet about whom Auden had very mixed feelings. Auden disagreed with Yeats on many points but ultimately his respect for his poetic gift wins through in the poem. Intellectual disgraceStares from every human face, 智能所受的耻辱 从每个人的脸上透露， And the seas of pi