今年的诺贝尔文学奖: 美国诗人Louise Glück

Epiphany

今年的诺贝尔文学奖: 美国诗人Louise Glück


Jacob


我认识一位男生, 他的母语是英语父语是葡萄牙语, 出生在巴西但在美国读书, 喜欢中国语言和文学。他熟悉英语诗歌, 能够背诵很多篇幅不短的诗, 比如雪莱的"Ode to the West Wind", 还有Robert Frost的"Birches", "Directive", 等等。


美国诗人Louise Glück获得今年诺贝尔文学奖, 我问他对此有何看法。他没因为我是理科专业而笑我无知, 他说:


"I've read Louise Glück, but my mind refuses to stalk any of her poems, much to their dismay. She reminds me of John Ashbery, another American poet whose poems are written more for literary critics than for common readers.


"Glück's poetry hardly endangers my physical life, nor does it make me prosper by sending a rush of thoughts to the account of my intellect. 'If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry,' remarked Emily Dickinson. 'If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way.'


"Capable and occasionally striking, Glück is not a poet as cold and passionate as the dawn."

Epiphany

This is by Jacob:

直译(literal or word-for-word translation)不是很难, 有一个现成的例子: 抗美援朝 = resist beauty aid dynasty。