How can you read poetry without reading it?
Reading poetry is to feel the magic of language, which can increase the love of language and distinguish the quality of language. Only those who often read poems can truly understand how beautiful the poetic language is. Only by understanding the beauty of language can we truly appreciate the pleasure of reading.
life
Like traveling.
sometimes
You can slow down.
a book
Primary photosynthesis
Unload the burden from one's heart
Give birth to beautiful power
-CCTV 423 public service advertisement "Mark Chao: The Meaning of Reading"
book
Translator | Yu Guangzhong
No galleon can be like a book.
Send us to a foreign country,
There is no horse like a page.
A poem that leaps forward.
The poorest people can also travel,
Not intimidated by tariffs;
The vehicle carrying this human heart
How cheap the charge is.
a book
Translator | Mark Chao
No ship can be like a book.
Take us far away.
No good horse can be like a page of poetry.
So happy and flying.
Even if you are poor,
It can also take you on a free journey.
This chariot, plain and unpretentious,
But it carries the human soul.
It can be seen from the two versions that Mark Chao adopted the technique of free translation, which made the translation more literary, fresh, meaningful and catchy. Mr. Yu Lao adopts literal translation, with strong words and a strong sense of the times.
This is not the first time that he has read English poems aloud. Previously, he had read Oscar Wilde's To My Wife: A Book of Poetry.