sonnet:十四行诗、名头挺大的
curtal: cut short 的意思,缩短、裁切
curtal sonnet 的意思,是浓缩版十四行诗。
全诗十一行,所以也可以叫做十一行诗。
这种类型是由19世纪的英国诗人杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯创造的,但他只写了三首。
Gerard写这首Pied Beauty的时候,也许他本人是在赞美上帝创造了这多姿多彩的世界。但是,这个题目放到中国,看起来像是“花大姐”,更糟糕的,可能像是“花姑娘”。所以,读起来有一些诙谐,甚至黑色幽默,变得和上帝毫无关系。
Pied Beauty
by Gerard Manley HopkinsGlory be to God for dappled things —
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
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