时间:2018-02-10 10:17:29 来源:http://www.pinghe.com 作者:Frank
这首诗作于1919年,叶芝以世界末日和基督重临来描绘第一次世界大战后的欧洲。可以说,这首诗是很有预言意义的。运用多种典故了融入到诗歌之中,表现了诗人及其复杂的内心感受。
The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelationis at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image outof Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
基督重临
叶芝(袁可嘉译)
在向外扩张的旋体上旋转呀旋转,
猎鹰再也听不见主人的呼唤。
一切都四散了,再也保不住中心,
世界上到处弥漫着一片混乱,
血色迷糊的潮流奔腾汹涌,
到处把纯真的礼仪淹没其中;
优秀的人们信心尽失,
坏蛋们则充满了炽烈的狂热。
无疑神的启示就要显灵,
无疑基督就将重临。
基督重临!这几个字还未出口,
刺眼的是从大记忆来的巨兽:
荒漠中,人首狮身的形体,
如太阳般漠然而无情地相觑,
慢慢挪动腿,它的四周一圈圈,
沙漠上愤怒的鸟群阴影飞旋。
黑暗又下降了,如今我明白
二十个世纪的沉沉昏睡,
在转动的摇篮里做起了恼人的恶梦,
何种狂兽,终于等到了时辰,
懒洋洋地倒向圣地来投生?
离开课仅剩天