<p class="ql-block">By Walt Whitman </p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">第六節(jié)里開始出現(xiàn)grass. 這里小草的意象是什么呢？一種生命密碼？一種神跡？生命與死亡無始無終、循環(huán)往復(fù)？詩人促使我們嚴(yán)肅的思考。</p> <p class="ql-block">Song of Myself </p><p class="ql-block">—-Walt Whitman </p><p class="ql-block">6</p><p class="ql-block">A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;</p><p class="ql-block">How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.</p><p class="ql-block">I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.</p><p class="ql-block">Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,</p><p class="ql-block">A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,</p><p class="ql-block">Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may</p><p class="ql-block">see and remark, and say Whose?</p><p class="ql-block">Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.</p><p class="ql-block">Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,</p><p class="ql-block">And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,</p><p class="ql-block">Growing among black folks as among white,</p><p class="ql-block">Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.</p><p class="ql-block">And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.</p><p class="ql-block">Tenderly will I use you curling grass,</p><p class="ql-block">It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,</p><p class="ql-block">It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,</p><p class="ql-block">It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,</p><p class="ql-block">And here you are the mothers' laps.</p><p class="ql-block">This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,</p><p class="ql-block">Darker than the colorless beards of old men,</p><p class="ql-block">Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.</p><p class="ql-block">O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,</p><p class="ql-block">And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.</p><p class="ql-block">I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,</p><p class="ql-block">And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.</p><p class="ql-block">What do you think has become of the young and old men?</p><p class="ql-block">And what do you think has become of the women and chil- dren?</p><p class="ql-block">They are alive and well somewhere,</p><p class="ql-block">The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,</p><p class="ql-block">And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,</p><p class="ql-block">And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.</p><p class="ql-block">All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,</p><p class="ql-block">And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.</p><p class="ql-block">“我們稱為草的，</p><p class="ql-block">它是啥? 有啥用？</p><p class="ql-block">它的來龍去脈，</p><p class="ql-block">您給講講吧！” </p><p class="ql-block">雙手捧著小草的孩子問我。</p><p class="ql-block">我該怎么回答他? </p><p class="ql-block">我和他一樣，</p><p class="ql-block">也搞不懂草到底是什么。</p><p class="ql-block">我猜它是我性格的旗幟吧，</p><p class="ql-block">用充滿希望的綠色材料編成；</p><p class="ql-block">或者我猜它是上帝的手絹、</p><p class="ql-block">被故意丟棄的有香味的紀(jì)念品，</p><p class="ql-block">卻在屋角某角落刻著主人的名字，</p><p class="ql-block">好讓我們看到并加以評論，</p><p class="ql-block">然后問是誰的；</p><p class="ql-block">或者我猜它本身就是一個孩子，</p><p class="ql-block">是草木孕育出來的嬰兒。</p><p class="ql-block">或者我猜它是統(tǒng)一的象形文字，</p><p class="ql-block">無論在廣闊或狹窄的區(qū)域，</p><p class="ql-block">無論是在黑人或白人中，</p><p class="ql-block">無論是卡納克人、塔克霍人、</p><p class="ql-block">國會議員或倉庫管理員，</p><p class="ql-block">我給他們同樣的東西，</p><p class="ql-block">我也要接受他們同樣的東西。</p><p class="ql-block">現(xiàn)在，依我看來，卷曲的草</p><p class="ql-block">是墳?zāi)估镂醇糸_的美麗頭發(fā)，</p><p class="ql-block">我將溫柔地為你派上用場。</p><p class="ql-block">也許草就來自年輕人的胸膛。</p><p class="ql-block">如果我認(rèn)識他們，</p><p class="ql-block">我可能會愛他們。</p><p class="ql-block">草也可能來自老年人，</p><p class="ql-block">或來自剛從母親膝下誕生的后代，</p><p class="ql-block">而你現(xiàn)在也成了</p><p class="ql-block">母親可依靠的腿腳。</p><p class="ql-block">這些草顯得很黑，</p><p class="ql-block">如果與年老母親的白頭發(fā)相比，</p><p class="ql-block">或與老人無色的胡子相比，</p><p class="ql-block">或與淡紅的嘴唇相比。</p><p class="ql-block">啊，我發(fā)現(xiàn)有那么多舌頭在說話，</p><p class="ql-block">我發(fā)現(xiàn)它們并不是無緣無故</p><p class="ql-block">從人們的嘴唇而來。</p><p class="ql-block">我希望我能翻譯出</p><p class="ql-block">關(guān)于死去的年輕男女的暗示，</p><p class="ql-block">還有關(guān)于老人和母親的暗示，</p><p class="ql-block">以及過早從他們膝下帶走的后代。</p><p class="ql-block">你認(rèn)為年輕人和老人</p><p class="ql-block">都變成什么樣子了?</p><p class="ql-block">你認(rèn)為那些女人和孩子</p><p class="ql-block">都變成什么樣子了?</p><p class="ql-block">他們都活得好好的呢，</p><p class="ql-block">只是不知道具體在哪個地方。</p><p class="ql-block">最小的草芽表明</p><p class="ql-block">世上根本沒有死亡那回事。</p><p class="ql-block">如果曾經(jīng)有過的話，</p><p class="ql-block">它也是引領(lǐng)著生活向前發(fā)展，</p><p class="ql-block">而不是等到生命的盡頭</p><p class="ql-block">才去制止它。</p><p class="ql-block">當(dāng)生命一出現(xiàn)，</p><p class="ql-block">死亡就停止了。</p><p class="ql-block">一切都是向前和向外，</p><p class="ql-block">沒有東西會崩潰 毀滅。</p><p class="ql-block">和任何人的想象不一樣，</p><p class="ql-block">死亡不是令人悲痛的事，</p><p class="ql-block">而只是更幸運(yùn)。</p><p class="ql-block">——賈德星學(xué)習(xí)相關(guān)譯本</p><p class="ql-block">并試譯，</p><p class="ql-block">午后陽光下 8/1/2022</p><p class="ql-block">《自我之歌》1892 Version </p><p class="ql-block">—Walt Whitman </p><p class="ql-block">6.</p><p class="ql-block">一個孩子說：草是什么？</p><p class="ql-block">他雙手遞上滿握的青草。</p><p class="ql-block">我該如何回應(yīng)這孩子？</p><p class="ql-block">我知道的并不比他多。</p><p class="ql-block">我猜這一定是我氣質(zhì)的旗幟，</p><p class="ql-block">籍由充滿希望的綠色元素織成。</p><p class="ql-block">或者，我猜它是上帝故意遺落的手帕，</p><p class="ql-block">一件香氛濃郁的贈與與紀(jì)念，</p><p class="ql-block">承載著所有者的名字，</p><p class="ql-block">在某個角落里使我們看到，評論，發(fā)出詢問：這是誰的？</p><p class="ql-block">或者，我猜小草本身</p><p class="ql-block">就是個孩子，</p><p class="ql-block">植被誕生的寶貝。</p><p class="ql-block">或者，我猜它是一種統(tǒng)一的象形文字，</p><p class="ql-block">這意味著，它在廣闊地域與狹窄地域同樣涌現(xiàn)，</p><p class="ql-block">在黑人或者白人中同樣生長，</p><p class="ql-block">無論是法裔加洲人，弗吉尼亞人，國會議員，還是非裔美國人，</p><p class="ql-block">我都同樣給予，同樣接受。</p><p class="ql-block">現(xiàn)在在我眼中這草就是墳頭上美麗又未經(jīng)修剪的頭發(fā)。</p><p class="ql-block">我會溫柔地對待你這卷曲的小草，</p><p class="ql-block">因為你也許來源于年輕男子的胸膛。</p><p class="ql-block">也許，我當(dāng)初若認(rèn)識他們，我就已經(jīng)愛上了他們。</p><p class="ql-block">也許，你來自于老人們，或者是母親懷抱中的孩子，</p><p class="ql-block">而你正是母親們的懷抱。</p><p class="ql-block">草色來自母親的白頭卻幽暗，</p><p class="ql-block">比老人們失了顏色的胡髭更幽暗。</p><p class="ql-block">那幽暗來自于淡紅色的口腔。</p><p class="ql-block">哦，我終于意識到眾生皆發(fā)聲，</p><p class="ql-block">我意識到它們不會無端從口腔中蹦出。</p><p class="ql-block">我希望自己能破譯關(guān)于死亡的青年男女的暗示，</p><p class="ql-block">還有關(guān)于老人及母親的、</p><p class="ql-block">以及那些很快脫離母親懷抱的后代的暗示。</p><p class="ql-block">你認(rèn)為那些年輕的年老的都變成了什么？</p><p class="ql-block">你認(rèn)為那些婦女兒童又變成了什么？</p><p class="ql-block">他們?nèi)院煤玫鼗钤谑篱g某處。</p><p class="ql-block">是小的草芽表明世上沒有死亡，</p><p class="ql-block">倘若有，它引領(lǐng)著生命前行，而非等到最后一刻去阻止生命、</p><p class="ql-block">在生命出現(xiàn)的一刻去中止生命。</p><p class="ql-block">一切都在繼續(xù)，向外延伸，沒有崩潰。</p><p class="ql-block">死亡與任何人的想象有所不同，而且更幸運(yùn)。</p><p class="ql-block">-Frances 08/01/2022</p><p class="ql-block">我的歌</p><p class="ql-block">#</p><p class="ql-block">六</p><p class="ql-block">孩子滿手草，問草是什么？</p><p class="ql-block">我知也不多，怎么回答他？</p><p class="ql-block">是我性格旗，綠色希望織，</p><p class="ql-block">或是神手帕，馨香有憶意，</p><p class="ql-block">角落暗留名，待人尋品評。</p><p class="ql-block">許是小兒身，植物孕育來，</p><p class="ql-block">或是象形字，有地就發(fā)芽，</p><p class="ql-block">黑白皆成長，貴賤都一樣。</p><p class="ql-block">美似墳頭草，溫柔若卷發(fā)，</p><p class="ql-block">青年胸中來，相識自相愛。</p><p class="ql-block">老人和母子，或是母懷抱，</p><p class="ql-block">草若深而暗，白發(fā)須髯來。</p><p class="ql-block">紅唇歲暗淡，眾口皆有詞，</p><p class="ql-block">無話不由緣，欲解人之迷。</p><p class="ql-block">年輕或早逝，老幼婦孺在，</p><p class="ql-block">生命天下存，幼苗并未亡。</p><p class="ql-block">活著勿虛度，不誤好時光，</p><p class="ql-block">出生入死時，一切皆持續(xù)，</p><p class="ql-block">無處不向前，無事被摧毀，</p><p class="ql-block">死亡更幸運(yùn)，并非人所想。</p><p class="ql-block">—劉曉紅 交作業(yè)14/01/2022</p> <p class="ql-block">圖片來源網(wǎng)絡(luò)</p>
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