My heart is aching, sleepy and numb.
Into the senses, like drinking poison,
Like swallowing opium,
So he sank to Leeds and forgot the river;
I'm not jealous of your good luck,
It's your happiness that makes me so happy-
Because in the bright world of the forest,
You, light-winged fairy,
You hide in the shadow of green and beech,
Let go of your voice and sing about summer.
2
Alas, if only there was a sip of wine! Nalengcang
An alcoholic liquor stored underground for many years,
When you taste it, it reminds you of a green country.
Think of the goddess of flowers, love songs, sunshine and dancing!
If there is a cup of warmth from the south.
Full of bright red inspiration,
Pearl foam goes out at the edge of the cup,
Dye your lips with purple spots;
Oh, I'm going to drink and die peacefully,
Walk with you and disappear in the dark forest;
three
Far away, far away, let me forget.
Everything you don't know in the leaves,
Forget this fatigue, fever and anxiety,
This makes people sigh the world of sitting;
Here, youth is pale, haggard and dead,
And "paralysis" has a few white hairs swaying;
Here, a little thinking is full.
Sadness and gray despair,
And "beauty" can't keep the brilliance of bright eyes,
The new love will wither before tomorrow.
four
Let's go Let's go I want to fly to you,
You don't have to ride in Bowen's car with Dionysus.
I want to spread the invisible wings of poetry,
Although this mind has been sleepy and tired;
Let's go Oh, I went with you!
The night is so gentle and the moon is on the throne.
There are a group of stars around to guard her;
But it's not very bright here,
Except for a ray of skylight, which was taken away by the breeze.
Lush darkness and winding moss paths.
five
I can't tell what flowers are at my feet.
What fragrant flowers are hanging on the branches;
In the warm darkness, I can only guess.
What incense should be put in this season?
Give this fruit tree, Lin Mang and grass,
This white bitter orange blossom, and the roses in the field,
Violets that are easy to thank in this pile of green leaves,
And the indulgence in mid-May,
This musk rose is full of dew,
On summer nights, it became a harbor buzzing with gnats.
six
I listen in the dark; Oh, how many times?
I almost fell in love with a quiet death,
I used up all the beautiful words in the poem,
Ask him to spread my breath into the air;
Now, oh, how rich death is:
Die in the middle of the night,
When you pour out your heart
Send out such ecstasy!
You can still sing, but I'll never hear it again-
Your corolla can only sing to the mud grass.
seven
Fairy bird, you won't die!
Hungry generations can't trample on you;
I overheard a song tonight.
It once delighted the ancient emperors and villagers.
Maybe this song has aroused.
Ruth's melancholy heart made her cry.
Standing in a foreign grain field thinking about hometown;
It is this sound that often
Window leaf in wonderland with lost motivation;
A beautiful woman looked at the sinister waves.
eight
Oh, I lost it! This sentence is like thunder.
Let me save myself!
Farewell! Fantasy, this deceitful devil boy,
You can't always play tricks on it.
Farewell! Farewell! The song you complain about
Through the lawn, through the quiet stream,
Slip up the hill; And at this time, it deeply
Buried in a nearby valley:
Is this an illusion or a dream?
The song has gone:-Am I sleeping? Is it awake?
1865438+May 2009
(translated by Cha Liang Zheng)
Precautions:
Liz, the river of hades, drink it and forget everything about past lives.
According to the Old Testament, Ruth was the ancestor of King David, whose ancestral home was Moab. Later, she worked as a farmer for Potts, a rich man, in Bethlehem and married him.
Medieval legends often describe a strange castle, isolated in the sea; If the brave knight can take risks here, he will get the treasure and the princess in the castle as his wife. It says here that the nightingale's singing will inspire the beauty to open the window and expect her knight to escape.
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The exact writing date of Ode to a Nightingale is uncertain, but it can be roughly confirmed that it was in late May of 18 19 after the writing of Ode to the Soul was completed. Charles Brown is one of Keats' best friends, and Keats always lives in his house. Recalling Keats' poem, he wrote: "In the spring of 18 19, a nightingale built a nest near my home, and Keats felt quiet and lasting pleasure in her singing. One morning, he moved a chair to the grass and sat under a plum tree for two or three hours. When he entered the room, I saw some papers in his hand. He hid them behind some books on the shelf. " Keats wrote 80 lines of poems in one morning. The stanzas were regular and well organized. Keats expressed his inner desire for life and beauty in his poems.
When the nightingale's song entered the poet's spiritual world this morning, it was the time when he suffered both mental and physical pain. 18 18 12, Keats was engaged to his beloved girl Fanny Brownie, but shortly after the poem was written, Keats' illness showed bad signs, and his life was difficult, and he finally failed to combine with Brownie. For Keats, both physical life and spiritual life are on the verge of striding over to another painful stage. Death beckons ahead, and the poet's eyes are only "gray-eyed despair". The misfortune of emotional life and the torture of physical illness are intertwined in poetry, and the poet's inner imagination wanders back and forth, taking us to experience the pain and death of life.
The poet compares the double morbid state of his physiology and life to the fact that people fall into a state of numbness after swallowing opium. He stumbled on the edge of life, feeling as if he had stepped into the oblivion of Hades, and stepped into the realm of sleepless as if he were dead. In reality, I am suffering from "fatigue, fever and anxiety", and my youth is "pale, haggard and dead" in this torture, and the beauty and love pursued by the poet have completely lost its luster. The brisk singing of the nightingale walking around in the forest made the poet feel the vitality of life, made the poet forget the pain in the world, and detached himself from "sadness and despair with gray eyes". The nightingale's song is like wine buried underground for a long time, which inspires the poet's longing for a new life with its sweetness and makes a green country of "flowers, love songs, sunshine and dance" emerge in the poet's mind. The poet drank the "fountain of inspiration", got rid of the pain in the world, "drank away" and disappeared in the dark forest with the nightingale. The first three verses of the poem are described strangely, and the description of nightingale singing is full of fresh and bright colors.
The fourth, fifth and sixth sections of the poem show the protagonist's pursuit of the dreamland caused by the nightingale. The poet's pursuit of nightingale is not driven by Dionysus, but the poet's help. His persistence in poetry will give him "invisible wings", which reflects Keats' belief in poetry. Poetry is a way for Keats to break away from reality and reach the ideal state of beauty. It is not a confused state caused by drinking, but a way of existence to make up for the lack of life, so it is also a happy state. What is such a happy state?
The poet and the nightingale walked through the dark forest together, and the star that guarded her later seemed to herald death in darkness and tranquility. Only when the breeze passes through the treetops can there be some skylight. The poet can't see flowers here, but can only imagine that in this "warm darkness", white bitter orange flowers, roses in the field, violets and musk roses release fragrant breath, and these beautiful flower trees have become the harbor where gnats buzz. In the poet's image construction, the nightingale's flight is still full of death.
In the sixth section, the poet listened to the nightingale singing in the dark and said that he almost fell in love with "quiet death". Surrounded by the euphemistic song of the nightingale, the poet felt the romantic death of "scattering into the sky in one breath". Under the guidance of the nightingale's flight, the consciousness of death seems to be more abundant than in the world. The expectation of ending life painlessly in the infinite universe shows that the poet yearns for a kind of eternal peace of the soul. The nightingale's song seems to be a requiem sung by God to the poet, or the nightingale's song is the sound of nature. This kind of death that poets yearn for is obviously different from the fidgety death caused by fatigue and fever. However, following the nightingale's beautiful song, he still can't get rid of the idea of death, which also shows the pain that the poet is still fighting against reality.
Eternal bird, it won't die. The nightingale is the messenger of heaven and the voice of nature, bringing eternal peace to life. It also transcends history and time and space. This meaning is expressed in the seventh section of this poem. The nightingale's song once brought joy to ancient emperors and villagers, soothed the melancholy heart of Jewish mother (Ruth was the ancestor of King David), and perhaps awakened the heart of a beautiful woman trapped in an isolated island in the Middle Ages many times, allowing her to realize her dream of saving knights. The nightingale's imagination here is undoubtedly romantic and beautiful. In the eighth section, when the poet wakes up from imagination and meditation, he completely denies these imaginations without mercy. "Fantasy, this deceitful demon child", he issued a sharp question. When the nightingale's song floats across the lawn, hillside and stream, the poet can't grasp whether the previous imagination and longing are hallucinations or dreams: "Am I sleeping?" Is it awake? "This actually implies the emotional clues that run through the whole poem, that is, the state of life in which reality and imagination are intertwined.
Throughout the poem, Ode to a Nightingale not only expresses the poet's feeling of realistic pain, but also poetically depicts his life ideal and attitude. Poetry combines the melancholy of reality with the liberation of imagination, fully expressing the duality of human life experience. Although the author feels lonely because of real pain, his creative imagination and the ecstasy of poetic art make his inner life extremely rich. With the help of imagination, the protagonist calms the pain in the fourth and fifth sections, but the last two sections correspond to the beginning and return to this pain. Reality always represents setbacks, and imagination gives the poet happiness, but no matter which direction he is led, the author is always reflecting, and reflection is always in confusion. In this flowing transition of life state, the nightingale's song not only expresses the ideal and beauty of life, but also has richer connotation of exploring the meaning of life.
(Yu Chao)