从前车马很慢,书信很远,一生只够爱一个人
今天读到一篇浪漫诗人济慈的情书,从前的爱情呀,仅凭一封书信便可定终生~
济慈在20多岁时爱上了邻家女孩芬妮(Fanny)并与其订了婚。但那时济慈身患肺结核,身体每况愈下,最终客死他乡。济慈与芬妮虽然订了婚,却未能步入婚姻殿堂。在济慈下葬时,他的胸口还放着一封写给芬妮的信,而芬妮终身都没有取下与济慈订婚的那枚戒指。
让我们来看一下英国文学史上著名的浪漫派诗人约翰济慈写给芬妮的书信
13th October, 1819.
College Street
My dearest girl,
This moment I have set myself to copy some verses out fair. I cannot proceed with any degree of content.
I must write you a line or two and see if that will assist in dismissing you from my mind for ever so short a time.
Upon my soul I can think of nothing else.
The time is passed when I had power to advise and warn you against the unpromising morning of my life.
My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you.
I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again.
My life seems to stop there. I see no further. You have absorbed me.
I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you.
I should be afraid to separate myself far from you.
My sweet Fanny, will your heart never change? My love, will it? I have no limit now to my love.
Your note came in just here. I cannot be "happier" away from you. It is richer than an argosy of pearls.
Do not threat me, even in jest.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion. I could die for that.
I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
You have ravished me away by a power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you;
and even since I have seen you I have endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."
I can do that no more; the pain would be too great.
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
Yours for ever
济慈和芬妮从相识到相恋,到济慈25岁去世,也不过短短三年时间。可是感情的真挚和刻骨铭心却不是时间的长短来衡量的!
只是有点好奇,是爱情的悲剧性造成了这段爱情的伟大,还是因为爱情的伟大必然是悲剧的收尾呢? 正如《泰坦尼克号》中Jack 和Rose的爱情故事,我们感觉到美好,因为在一起时有心灵的安定,可在爱情浓度最高的时候,止步于最美~
人这一生最幸运的事情,不就是我赌赢了这着张船票,遇见了你吗?
My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
爱情是我的信条,你是它唯一的教义。
在搜索济慈和芬妮 的情书时,发现了Bright Star(《明亮的星》),讲济慈与芬妮的爱情故事的电影,也许从电影里面的场景,更能反映济慈当时的心境吧!
你是我倾心爱慕的意中人——屋子里如果没有你,我觉得那空气是污浊的。你对我却不是这样——不——你可以等待——你有成千上百种活动——没有我你也会快活的。只要每天有社交活动,能消磨掉这一天的时间就行。
推荐大家去看一下这部电影~也对怀有一份期待!
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