Facing a pile of rare ancient books, I want to uncover the mystery of loss.
When I dozed off and almost fell asleep, I suddenly heard the sound of pecking.
It seems that someone is knocking at my door.
"Who is knocking at the door?" I muttered, "There must be guests,-
Nothing else, too lazy to guess. "
Ah, I clearly remember that the weather in1February was very cold.
The ghost cast by the embers shook on the ground.
I am anxiously looking forward to the morning, and I am looking for chapters in vain.
I want to use the prescription in the book to stop the sadness of losing Lenore-
What a beautiful and lovely angel, a girl named Lenore,
This name has never existed in the world.
Every purple silk curtain rustles with sadness,
Let the absurd horror I have never experienced befall me;
At the moment in order to stop the heartbeat, I stood up and said:
"This is someone knocking at my door and asking to come in.
This is a midnight guest who knocked on my door and asked to come in.
Nothing else, too lazy to guess. "
In a flash, I summoned up my courage and stopped hesitating.
"I sincerely ask your forgiveness," I said. "Sir or madam,
Actually, I'm sleepy. You knocked too lightly.
Knocking on my door so vaguely,
I don't know if I really heard it. "Then I open the door,-
Nothing, it's a haze.
I looked into the darkness, and I stood there, unbelievable and panicked.
Strange dreams that mortals dare not dream appear in front of me,
But there was silence around, and there was no sign in the darkness.
Just whisper "Lenore!" The sound lingers in the dark,
This is my deep voice "Lenore!" The echo came back,
Nothing but that.
So I turned and entered the room, and my whole soul was burning.
Immediately, I heard a peck, louder than before.
"I know," I said, "something is knocking at my window.
Let me see what can solve this mystery-
Let my heart be quiet for a while and solve this mystery.
It must be the wind, is it him! "
At this time, I opened the blinds, so I shook my wings.
Step into the serious crow-he belongs to the sacred ancient times;
He has no manners. He never stops or hesitates.
But he put on an aristocratic air and ran to the top of my house to stay.
Stay on the statue of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, at the top of my door,
Stay there and don't come down.
This huge ebony bird, a solemn musical instrument,
His seriousness and elegance dispelled my worries and made me laugh;
"Even if you pull out all your hair," I said, "you have a lot of courage.
You gloomy old crow, from the other side of the night,
May I ask your name, on the shore of hades at night! "
The crow said, "Never again."
I am very surprised that this ugly big bird can understand words.
Although his answer is beside the point, the meaning is not clear. )
Because we must admit that all the people in the world
No one has ever been lucky enough to see a big bird on his door.
Fortunately, I saw a bird or a wild animal sitting on the statue at the top of his door.
It's called "Never again".
But the crow perched on the statue only said this sentence,
It seems that his whole soul is spit out in this sentence.
Then he didn't say anything, no feathers shaking,—
Until I muttered, "all the other friends have left,
Just as I hope to fly away, he will leave in the morning. "
The crow said, "Never again."
This answer is so ingenious that I can't help but be surprised.
"There is no doubt," I said, "this sentence is all his eloquence.
From some unfortunate master-disaster has no mercy on him,
Keep up step by step until his songs are overloaded.
Until all his songs of hope bear the same burden,
This overload is called "never happening again". "
But crows still make me happy, make me happy,
* * * Push the cushioned seat to Big Bird;
Sitting on velvet, connecting various fantasies into clues.
I began to ponder and guess the meaning of the ominous ancient bird.
Guess this weird, scary, ugly and ominous ancient bird,
Why did he say "never again"?
I guessed and absorbed, but I didn't say a word to Big Bird.
At this moment, his fiery eyes have burned through my heart.
I guessed a lot intuitively, and when my head leaned gently,
In the light of gloating,
But the owner of the cushion, this lavender velvet cushion
She doesn't depend on it anymore, not anymore!
I think the air becomes dense, and the invisible incense burner emits fragrance.
It was the angel shaking the incense burner, tinkling faintly.
"Poor thing!" I shouted, "God sent an angel to me.
Rest-rest and worry-forget the medicine, let me forget Lenore!
Let me drink the medicine to forget my troubles and forget the lost Lenore! "
The crow said, "Never again."
"Prophet!" I said, "A prophet! Although you are a bird or a demon,
Whether the tempter sent you here or the storm threw you down-
Bold and lonely, I came to this barren land fascinated by magic.
Come to this terrible hut, please confess to me:
Gilead, do you have any ointment for the pain? Please confess to me! "
The crow said, "Never again."
"Prophet!" I said, "A prophet! Although you are a bird or a demon,
By God, by God,
Please tell me the sad soul: in the distant Garden of Eden,
Can I hold Lenore, the girl who ascended to heaven, in my arms? ——
How beautiful and lovely the angel of that girl named Lenore is! "
The crow said, "Never again."
"Say goodbye with this sentence, the devil is still a bird!" I jumped up and screamed:
"Back to your stormy night, back to the shore of your hell!
Don't even leave a Kuroha, let me forget your lies!
Don't disturb my loneliness! Stay away from my statue!
Stop pecking at my heart and put the statue on my door! "
The crow said, "Never again."
The crow still perched on the door, on the pale statue of Athena,
Sitting still, not flying, it seems that I never want to leave;
His eyes fell into a dream like a demon.
The chandelier reflected his projection on the ground and swayed gently.
My soul is shrouded in this shadow and can't get up anymore.
Want to get rid of it? -Never again!
(translated by Bai Fei)
Precautions:
According to the Bible, Gilead on the east bank of Jordan produces elixirs, which are made of resin.
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Edgar allan poe's poems with the word "unlucky" tattooed on his forehead all take life as the theme. Besides love, love is death, disillusionment and mourning. Edgar Allan Poe thinks that the combination of beauty and death can express the highest poetic interest, so his poems are bleak in tone, gloomy in color and mysterious in atmosphere, but elegant and luxurious in style. He is good at expressing the content of poetry with the help of metaphor of words, harmony of rhythm and fantastic artistic conception. In poetics, Poe put forward the theory of "pure poetry" and advocated "art for art's sake". He attaches importance to emotion and aesthetic feeling in poetry, and rejects rationality, thinking that irrationality is stronger rationality. He also emphasized the role of music in pure poetry, saying that the musicality of poetry is the most fascinating poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe was neglected in China before his death, and was discovered and admired by the French poet Baudelaire after his death, so he became the originator of symbolism. His poetics has also exerted a wide influence in the world through the play and propaganda of French symbolism.
Crow is Poe's famous work and masterpiece. Because this poem embodies an all-encompassing painful emotion and sadness, it can be said that it is his deepest and most outstanding originality and imagination of melancholy beauty.
In The Principles of Poetry, Poe emphasized the melancholy beauty of poetry. In his view, the melancholy beauty comes from the longing for the origin of Ming Che. "It's a moth's yearning for the stars", which is a transcendental perception of the pain and sadness of this world in the depths of the subconscious mind. It is through irrational nightmare consciousness that The Crow embodies Poe's aesthetic thought and poetic concept in this respect in the heaviest practical state.
Crow has line 108. Literally, it can be understood that it is mourning for the dead lover "Lenore"; On closer inspection, however, the poet is trying to express eternal human feelings such as sadness, sadness, grief and despair through subconscious hallucinations, so as to create melancholy beauty and establish its value.
The atmosphere of the whole poem is horrible, gloomy, dark and hopeless from beginning to end. At midnight in the cold wind in December, I lost Lenore. The gloomy and dark world condensed into the image of a crow, flapped its wings, stepped into the shutters, and proudly stepped onto the image of Athena, the goddess of wisdom at the top of the door, posing as an arrogant aristocrat. "Stay there and never come down."
A crow, representing ominous signs and evil ugliness in human mind, stepped on Athena, the goddess of wisdom in charge of science and world order without scruple. Its moral and symbolic significance is very profound. It can be felt that under the arrogance and contempt of irrational crows, the sacred aura of Athena's rational laurel seems dim.
In the irrational nightmare world, this supercilious ancient bird answers all the questions and sincere prayers of "Never Super Life" to "I" like a spell.
Never Come Again, an unprecedented gloomy and desperate voice, contains a modern consciousness about the nature of human history and life, which implies the universal fate of mankind and the fragmentation and disillusionment of its harmonious myth, which is closely followed by bad luck. The poem "Never Come Again" emphasizes and highlights the beauty of melancholy. Melancholy beauty is a profound understanding of beauty. It is full of endless depression and pain, arousing a kind of life colic and tearing pain. "It brings tears to the eyes of the soul, but these tears are not signs of bliss, but passionate excitement about unattainable beauty."
The unspeakable and unspeakable "melancholy" appeared.
In the poet's psychological experience and creative experience, perhaps nothing is closer to the realm of poetry than the shadow world shrouded in Never Again. Perhaps this realm of poetry is a special kingdom where melancholy beauty can last forever. Therefore, the poet intoned in a satisfactory tone:
My soul is shrouded in this shadow and can't get up anymore.
Want to get rid of it? -Never again!
The melancholy of the crow world is the highest poetic melancholy, which is progress rather than decadence, because it makes the mind stand up in its unique and otherworldly world when creating and examining it. Although the elegy of soul hope accepted this sad "never to come again" until the end, the soul was always in a state of tension and anxiety in this melancholy and beautiful kingdom. It has a strong impulse from time to time. It sees the profound and vivid reappearance of every idea, its rich understanding of life and death, and its close relationship with the breath of the eternal world. In meditation, it strongly coincides with the confrontation (unfortunate embrace) that appears at any time in fate, and blends with its most poetic "this is" in an instant; At the moment when it admitted and assumed all the sufferings of life, it gradually sublimated into "melancholy" and entered a wonderful, solemn and lofty realm.
The purpose of poetry lies in the sublimation of the soul, and the melancholy beauty ensures the whole process of realizing the sublimation of the soul. This is the spiritual core of edgar allan poe's poetics, and it is also the purpose of the novel The Crow in Never Coming Again.
Crow-never coming again-melancholy beauty, which is the revelation of beauty.
(Ji Xinping)