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当以素示人还尚白遇见A host, of golden daff

当以素示人还尚白遇见A host, of golden daff

作者: camellias的阿尔芒 | 来源:发表于2019-08-25 17:10 被阅读0次

    机缘巧合之下,这两首诗同时映入眼帘。一连串奇思妙想下,开启一场跨越时空的遇见。

    细思来,这是件很有意思的事情——当以素示人还尚白遇见A host, of golden daffodils.

    目光定格两百年前,关注两个几乎同时代的诗人:英国威廉.华兹华斯和清朝诗人钱登选……

    I wondered lonely as a cloud             

    That floats on high o'er vales and hills.

    When all at once I saw a crowd;   

    A host, of golden daffodils;

    Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

    Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

    我孤独的漫游,像一朵云

    在山丘和谷地上飘荡,

    忽然间我看见一群

    金色的水仙花迎春开放,

    在树荫下,在湖水边,

    迎着微风起舞翩翩。

    The Daffodils

    About two hundred years ago the English poet William Wordsworth wrote The Daffodils, a poem that expresses a basic spirit of early English Romanticism.

    大约两百年前,英国诗人威廉·华兹华斯写下《水仙花》,开启了英国诗歌浪漫主义情怀的先河。


    Continuous as the stars that shine

    And twinkle on the Milky Way,

    They stretched in never-ending line

    Along the margin of a bay:

    Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

    Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

    连绵不绝,如繁星灿烂,

    在银河里闪闪发光,

    它们沿着湖湾的边缘

    延伸成无穷无尽的一行:                   

    我一眼看见了一万朵,

    在欢舞之中起伏颠簸。(选段over)

    What makes this poem an example of Romantic thinking? It isn't just that Words-worth chooses to write about natural scene. It is the way that he describes the scene.

    For him, nature is more than a neutral mixture of scenery, colors, plants,rocks, soil, water and air. It is a living force that feels joy and sadness, shares humans' pian and even tries to educate us human beings by showing us the beauty of life.

    让人不禁要问:是什么使这首诗成为浪漫主义诗歌代表的呢?这绝非仅仅是因为诗人华兹华斯选择用自然景物创作,还有他描绘景物的巧妙手法。

    在他看来,自然的群体大于所有山川草木、鸟兽虫鱼这些个体的总和;它是一种温馨的生命力—— 通过展现其曼妙的舞姿,来接纳人生的或悲或喜,分担各种忧愁失意,还不忘把我们默默感化教导。

    Dove Cottage(鸽子农舍)

    Wordsworth's home, Dove Cottage, is now one of the most popular destinations in the Lake District. You can go on a tour of the garden which William planted with wild flowers and which survived in his backyard even after they disappeared from the area "He always said that if he hadn't been a poet , he would have been a wonderful scenery gardener," says Allan King of the Wordsworth Trust.

    诗人华兹华斯的故居鸽子农舍,如今已是英格兰北部湖泊区最受欢迎的观光地。在这里总能做很多不可思议的事,比如说你可以在他打理的花园悠闲散步,足迹掠过之处馥郁芬芳、四季不绝。他的挚友艾伦.金曾这样回忆,“ 他常说要有一天不当诗人,他估计会是个相当不错的花匠!”

    It is near the lake that Wordsworth once discovered the daffodils.

    You walk along from tree to tree, hardly daring to breathe, because you are walking in the footprints of William from two centuries ago.

    The first group of daffodils appears, but they aren't tall yellow ones proudly swing-ing in the gentle wind. They're tiny wild daffodils, most of them still green and un-opened, in groups of six or seven. They're grouped around individual trees rather than collecting together.

    漫步湖畔,在这里华兹华斯曾发现了一株水仙花。

    就这样沿树一颗一颗走下去,紧张到几乎无法呼吸,因为你正踏在两百年前他的足迹。

    最早开放的,不是煦风中凌然摆动的一簇亮黄,而是恬淡柔弱的野水仙。这时还有很多花含着翠绿、未经盛放,它们三五成群匍匐树下,而非一齐聚集他处。

    And then you realize this is what delighted Wordsworth: group after group of the things, spread of left and right, but coming together in your sight so that they form a beautiful, pale-yellow carpet. What you're seeing at last is nature, transformed by human sight and imagination.

    而后你猛地意识到,这就是湖畔诗人华兹华斯的一方乐土:淡黄色调绒毛地毯织就,视野无边无涯。在这里,你能够饱览自然秀色,又因为遇见,产生无穷无尽的想象力,并化之为诗。


    值得关注的是,清朝诗人钱登选也写过一首诗歌颂水仙——

    咏水仙
    诗书亦自有声香,对尔芳情觉韵长。以素示人还尚白,其中正色更流黄。
    勿言萧艾修容好,举似灵芝随地良。独夜挑灯深照影,非仙非俗也清狂。

    词句“以素示人还尚白,其中正色更流黄”,含蓄优美,包括诗人自己都感觉韵味悠长、珍视爱惜。

    初见,颇有好感,在与华兹华斯对比后,甚至为到了他惋惜的地步,替他觉得生不逢时。为何呢?那时的英国,华兹华斯刚刚开始诗歌的浪漫之旅,而钱登选的那个时代已经历了萌芽到巅峰,到他这只剩寥寥光点,茕茕一孤影。

    历史记载的钱登选是个生员(一种形式的秀才),生平不详,诗作进入大众视野的只有三篇,其余两篇是《梅箭》《荷钱》。

    他说,“纷纷梅箭乱纵衡,野鹊来游亦不惊。”可这份淡泊是他渴望要的吗?显然不是。因为随后他就发牢骚说,“自是圣朝无用处,何如结子且调羹。”基于此判断他确有生不逢时、怀才不遇之感。

    爱其诗,为谋之。

    若在先秦屈原的时代,他的心志感触、诗文韵律恰与“沅有芷兮澧有兰,思公子兮未敢言”相唱和呼应,一个一口气列举十来种香草,一个钟情于斯,佳兮!

    筑室兮水中,葺之兮荷盖;
    荪壁兮紫坛,播芳椒兮成堂;
    桂栋兮兰橑,辛夷楣兮药房;
    罔薜荔兮为帷,擗蕙櫋兮既张;
    白玉兮为镇,疏石兰兮为芳;
    芷葺兮荷屋,缭之兮杜衡。
    合百草兮实庭,建芳馨兮庑门。

    若在群星璀璨的大唐,这颗也不会黯淡。就拿杜甫来说吧,一天夜晚,他推窗观雨,远望江舟渔火(不许接“对愁眠”)……

    江舟渔火

    诶,等等,谁说须要“对愁眠”的?巧了,“穷年忧黎元,叹息肠内热”的杜甫今夜心情不错,触景生情吟出“好雨知时节,当春乃发生。晓看红湿处,花重锦官城。”

    对比发现,钱登选也不差嘛。将水仙的幽静与个人的狂放相结合,虽然他仕途不顺、生不逢时,但何妨他“熄灭读书灯,一身都是月”。

    若非生逢季世,这种执着的身影,有没有感到似曾相识?

    ——当然!

    因爱拼搏
    只争朝夕
    因为热爱
    我们奋斗
    夜再长
    有你身披霞光
    道再险
    有你手持利剑
    永恒无双
    旅途中的亿万光年,我还拥有这副躯体。

    回顾这些2019“最美医生”的震撼话语,再次想起全力以赴终于打造出顶尖水平学科的王东进医生;体贴病痛为他人带来安全感的王荃大夫;执着七年开创醒脑开窍针法的老中医石学敏;另辟蹊径又微米范围内精细执刀的医生姚玉峰;走遍大江南北的志愿医生凌峰,等等。

    我们可以静美,是如此平静,也可以狂放,但最终还是一个目的,追求美……

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