Virgil
The moonlight is bright, and it flows and plays on the water waves. ——
The window has just opened to welcome the breeze.
The sultan's imperial concubine saw the waves as snow.
In the distance, the silver waves are surging, beating against the Black Island.
She pointed to the voice of the guitar, trembling said:
She listened to ... a deep voice, deep and heavy.
Is the Turkish ship back, heavy hull?
Rowing Tatar oars, roaming the Greek Islands?
Or cormorants jump into the water, bang,
When chopping water, the wings were splashed with water droplets.
Or is there strange English twittering in the sky?
Push the tower into the sea?
Who stirred the water in the harem, and the boudoir is nearby? ——
It's not a black cormorant floating on the water wave,
Not the stone of the city wall, not the heavy hull.
Row slowly and make a rhythmic sound.
But a heavy bag, still crying inside.
If you look carefully, the bag floats in the sea with the waves.
Seems to see something moving in the bag, like a human figure. ...
The moonlight is bright, and it flows and plays on the water waves.
120 September 828
(translated by Cheng Zengzeng)
Precautions:
Elves in Arab folklore.
According to the ancient custom in Turkey, the concubine was unfaithful to Sudan and drowned in a bag.
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This poem was written on1September 20th, 828, and it is one of the famous works of Oriental Collection. 182 1 year, the struggle against Turkish rule broke out in Greece. 1824, the poet Byron died in the front line of Greece, and the European intellectual and literary circles paid great attention to the East. Hugo said in the preface of his poem: "The whole continent has fallen to the east." Hugo himself has never been to the East. This book of poems is famous for its magnificent colors, and the description should be said to be out of the poet's imagination. The poem Moonlight refers to a report in a Paris newspaper: Sudan threw imprisoned Christians into the sea; At the same time, I also referred to Byron's long poem "Sacrifice": a story about Sultan Hassan drowning his concubine Laila.
However, no matter what the overall creative background of this poem is and where the poet's inspiration comes from, the core strength of the poem Moonlight lies in its complex psychological feelings. It combines beauty and horror, depicts death in a quiet and elegant scenery, and is very calm and agile in setting off the atmosphere and creating the artistic conception.
The first paragraph sounds very calm: "The moonlight is bright, the moonlight is streamer, hitting the water waves." Then it was like a scene on the stage: the window opened, and an oriental beauty stood at the window, watching the silver waves surging and the snowflakes falling. Oriental beauties in the Turkish court are usually "physical" in the works of western artists. The plump and beautiful imprisoned body is a symbol of the object of desire and the desire itself. In Hugo's poems, this kind of beauty is only a silhouette, a window opening action and a thoughtful expression. As the subject in poetry, she is half hidden and half explicit, which forms a formal beauty contrast with the final theme of "death".
Two or three sections, that is, from a subjective point of view, write what beautiful women think. What is the "low and heavy" sound accompanied by guitar sound? Is the boat back? Did the cormorant jump into the water? Or was the pheasant on the tower pushed into the sea? Among these three ideas, the first one is very practical, adding the sentence "I paddled the Tartars and wandered around the Greek islands", introducing the background of the times that my contemporaries can understand. The second one is also practical, and it is very vivid to describe the cormorant entering the water with "wings splashing water drops when splitting water". And the third is strange, rumbling, pushing poetry to a possible * * *.
But in the fourth quarter, the short poem faltered and made a detour. Who disturbs the water in the harem and the boudoir is nearby? After questioning, I denied the above three speculations. This negative voice seems to be not the oriental beauty just now, but a generalized voice-over and an objective answer.
The last paragraph of the poem is very shocking, and the sobbing humanoid pocket reveals the mystery. However, the poet did not go any further to write about who these people were and why they were put in their pockets and thrown into the sea. Instead of introducing more direct narration and crying, he calmly came to the same scene description as the opening: "The moonlight is bright, the moonlight is streamer, hitting the water waves." The horrible death and the quiet moonlight form a strange contrast, which is probably the eastern landscape in the western imagination: cruel, beautiful, incomprehensible and disturbing.
Moonlight is a short poem with vivid images, but it is rich in content. Moonlight, waves, beautiful women and the pockets of floating drowning people combine "tranquility and beauty" with "panic". The sound of waves, guitars and people's sighs bring readers into a situation-this situation can be named "the East", but it is not necessarily the East. The ability and talent of this situation depends on the accomplishment and talent of a poet.
(Su Qiqi)