Part V Robert Frost 美国文学 罗伯特弗罗斯特.ppt

Part V Robert Frost 美国文学 罗伯特弗罗斯特 The Most of ItHe thought he kept the universe alone;For all the voice in answer he could wakeWas but he mocking echo of his ownFrom some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.Some morning from the boulder-broken beachHe would cry out on life, that what it wantsIs not its own love back in copy speech,But counter-love, original response.And nothing ever came of what he cried 它的极限他曾觉得是自己使宇宙孤独；因为他能唤醒的所有回答之声不过是他自己那嘲弄般的回音穿过湖面从某个被树林遮蔽的悬崖那边传来。某个早晨从碎卵石海滩上他会呼喊着恳求生活：它想要的并不是自己的爱在千篇一律演说中轮回，而是反对之爱，原初的回答。 可是没有任何东西随他的喊声而来 Unless it was the embodiment that crashedIn the cliff’s talus on the other side,And then in the far distant water splashed,But after a time allowed for it to swim,Instead of proving human when it nearedAnd someone else additional to him,As a great buck it powerfully appeared,Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,And landed pouring like a waterfall,And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,And forced the underbrush—and that was all. 除非它自己是那个化身，撞碎在另一边悬崖的岩屑上，然后弹落远处，海水飞溅，但稍作休息后它便游回来，当它游近，它看起来不是人类 也不是除他之外的另一个人， 而是头巨大的雄鹿，强大地破水而现，推开褶皱的水游来，然后登上岸，像一道瀑布倾倒下来，然后在穿过岩石时被绊倒，足音粗砺，然后逼开灌木丛——一切就此结束。 In his poem “The Most of It” Robert Frost explores whether nature alone is sufficient to satisfy human spiritual yearnings. At first pass, the poem reads like a dark statement about the absence of any higher intelligence in the natural world, and it has been interpreted this way by many, including the person who inspired Frost to write it, Wade Van Dore. However, on careful reading Frosts poem also contains a subtle celebration of natures spiritual assets. By creating a work with two possible meanings, Frost indicates that the answer to whether “nature is enough” is in the eye of the beholder. Because much of the poems hopeful message resides in its meter, Frost also seems to be saying that nature will be enough mainly for those who appreciate nuance and accept ambiguity. For those so predisposed, a spirituality b