Burned through forests and grasslands at night,
What kind of extraordinary hands and eyes?
Can shape your amazing symmetry.
What kind of distant seabed and horizon?
Burning a flame that brightens your eyes?
What wings do you dare to fly?
With what iron palm to catch the fire?
What kind of time, what kind of weapons,
Tendons that bend into your body?
When your heart starts to beat,
What kind of thrilling hands and feet?
What kind of chain? What kind of hammer?
What furnace is used to refine the brain?
What kind of anvil? What kind of strength?
Immediately caught the terrible thunder?
When it came, the stars put down their golden guns.
Thousands of tears filled the sky,
We'll see when it's finished. Can he laugh?
Didn't the sheep maker make you, too?
Dare to shape your amazing symmetry
Author/[England] william blake
Translator/Bian Zhilin
From/"We were in love but really ignorant", the scenery of the century.
Tiger, tiger, burning
In the forest at night
What immortal hands or eyes?
Can shape your terrible symmetry.
How far in the depth or sky?
Burn the flame in your eyes?
Why does he dare to yearn for it?
What kind of hand dares to catch fire?
What kind of shoulders and art
Will distort the muscles of your heart?
When your heart starts to beat
What kind of hands and feet of fear?
What hammer? What chain?
What furnace is your brain in?
What anvil? What a terrible grip
Dare to catch its deadly terror?
When the stars cast their spears
Watering heaven with their tears
Did he read his work with a smile?
Did the God who made the lamb make you?
Dare to frame your terrible symmetry?
William Blake
William blake is a great poet who enjoys a high reputation in British history, and also a talented poet with a unique style in the history of world poetry. He is not only proficient in poetry creation, but also a talented sculptor. His poems are full of sacred fantasy and mysterious imagination. On the theme of his poems, he has been focusing on thinking about the fate of mankind.
Tiger is a famous work by Blake. It is not only his personal masterpiece, but also often selected into various authoritative poetry anthologies. The Chinese translation provided by Bian is also very interesting. Blake can be said to be a great poet with a rather radical style. He himself lashed out at various traditions in the history of English poetry. Bian is a poet with implicit style and gentle personality. Strangely, although the styles of the two poets are quite different, it can be said that Bian keenly captured a genius tone in Chinese and presented the tone of Blake's poems wonderfully. The rhythm of this poem contains the echo of forging, beating the forged object like a hammer. Therefore, when we write this masterpiece of genius, a voice image should emerge from time to time in our minds: the image of the creator creating the world.
How to understand the relationship between creator and creation can be said to be a key to understand the profound meaning of this poem. Although the poet did mention that it created the power of sheep and tigers, it must be reminded that this poem is by no means a religious poem praising the creator. Blake is a liberal, and he looks at the vitality, strength and creativity of life with the eyes of mystics. Therefore, from the perspective of literary iconology, there are far more "tigers" in this poem than imagined in reality; As a prophet obsessed with apocalyptic style, Blake's real intention is that there is a tiger lurking inside each of us. Here, "tiger" not only has a primitive vitality, but also symbolizes a prototype of life that we have avoided.
In this poem, the use of the personal pronoun "you" also contains profound meanings. Under normal circumstances, the use of appellation between "I" and "you" creates an intimate interpersonal atmosphere of mutual trust. Calling "tiger" you is not only a simple anthropomorphic reference, but also means that as the prototype of life, "tiger" is another "me". Metaphor "tiger" is the true face of life, which is related to Blake's thinking about human destiny. In Blake's view, the darkness and stupidity of human spirit, as he mentioned in this poem, has greatly imprisoned our understanding and imagination of life itself. Many times, due to human prejudice and intolerance, we realize that there is a "tiger" lurking in our bodies, brilliant as fire. Therefore, Blake repeatedly uses interrogation syntax in this poem, which is intended to inspire us to look back at our life mirror with more radical and bold eyes.
Whispering like a prophet: Blake wrote that life is given to us, and in return, we are worthy of it. We should not forget the "terrible symmetry" in us.
Therefore, Tiger is not only a symbolic poem with rich metaphors, but also an era poem full of self-liberation and calling for life. Poetry recommendation/Cang Di
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