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【每日一诗】奥登《1939年9月1日》
2015-01-03 奥登 空白诗社
September 1, 1939
W.H.Auden
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
'I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,'
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the deaf,
Who can speak for the dumb?
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
《1939年9月1日》
奥登
胡桑译
我坐在第五十二大街的
一家下等酒吧里
犹豫不决,忧心忡忡
那些聪明的希望吐出
这虚伪堕落的十年:
愤怒与恐惧的电波
周旋于地球上光明与变暗的
土地之间,
扰乱我们的私人生活;
死亡那不便言及的气味
侵犯着九月的夜晚。
精湛的知识可以
揭示这整场侵犯
从路德至今
它把一种文化逼得疯狂,
看看发生在林茨的事,
多么巨大的心像造就了
一个精神变态的神:
我和公众都知道
所有的学童在学习什么
对他们施以邪恶
他们就报以邪恶。
流亡的修昔底德清楚
一次演讲所能道出的
关于民主的一切,
以及独裁者的所为,
面对一座毫无知觉的坟墓
他们讲述陈词滥调;
他在著作中分析的一切,
被撵走的启蒙运动,
习惯性疼痛,
混乱的管理以及忧伤,
我们必须再度忍受。
在中立的空气中
盲目的摩天大楼用
它们完满的高度宣告
集体人的力量,
每种语言都倾吐出无效的
富于竞争的借口:
有谁能长久活在
一个欢愉的梦里;
在镜子外面他们凝视,
帝国主义的面孔和国际性罪孽。
吧台周围的张张面孔
粘住他们寻常的一天:
灯不能熄灭,
音乐必须一直演奏,
所有的常规共同谋划
让这个堡垒采用家里的家具;
以免我们得知置身何处,
迷失在鬼魂出没的树林,
孩子们从未幸福或快乐
他们害怕黑夜。
权威人物呼出的
最强劲的军事垃圾
并不像我们想像的那样粗暴:
疯子尼金斯基所写的
关于迪亚吉列夫的一切
就像出自正常人的内心;
因为每个男人和女人
骨子里繁衍的谬误
渴求着无法获得之物,
并非普遍的爱
而是孤身一人被爱。
从保守的黑暗
进入伦理生活
密集的乘客们来了,
重复着早上的誓言:
“我将忠诚于妻子,
我将更专注地工作,”
无能的统治者醒来
继续他们的强制性游戏:
此时谁能让他们解脱,
谁能让聋子恢复听觉,
谁能为哑巴代言?
我所占有的只有声音
用来拆解折叠的谎言,
有血有肉的普通人
头脑中浪漫的谎言
以及其建筑高耸入云的
权威者的谎言;
没有任何事物如同这个国家
没有任何人单独存在;
饥饿让公民或警察
别无选择
我们必须相爱或者死去。
夜晚毫无设防
我们的世界在昏睡,
然而,在正义互换信息之处
讥讽的灯光在闪动
点缀着各处:
也许,我就像它们一样,
由爱和尘土构成,
被同样的虚无与绝望围攻,
放射出一束坚定的光芒。
附:布罗茨基:析奥登的《1939年9月1日》
http://www.douban.com/group/topic/3124453/
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2015-01-03 奥登 空白诗社
September 1, 1939
W.H.Auden
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
'I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,'
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the deaf,
Who can speak for the dumb?
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
《1939年9月1日》
奥登
胡桑译
我坐在第五十二大街的
一家下等酒吧里
犹豫不决,忧心忡忡
那些聪明的希望吐出
这虚伪堕落的十年:
愤怒与恐惧的电波
周旋于地球上光明与变暗的
土地之间,
扰乱我们的私人生活;
死亡那不便言及的气味
侵犯着九月的夜晚。
精湛的知识可以
揭示这整场侵犯
从路德至今
它把一种文化逼得疯狂,
看看发生在林茨的事,
多么巨大的心像造就了
一个精神变态的神:
我和公众都知道
所有的学童在学习什么
对他们施以邪恶
他们就报以邪恶。
流亡的修昔底德清楚
一次演讲所能道出的
关于民主的一切,
以及独裁者的所为,
面对一座毫无知觉的坟墓
他们讲述陈词滥调;
他在著作中分析的一切,
被撵走的启蒙运动,
习惯性疼痛,
混乱的管理以及忧伤,
我们必须再度忍受。
在中立的空气中
盲目的摩天大楼用
它们完满的高度宣告
集体人的力量,
每种语言都倾吐出无效的
富于竞争的借口:
有谁能长久活在
一个欢愉的梦里;
在镜子外面他们凝视,
帝国主义的面孔和国际性罪孽。
吧台周围的张张面孔
粘住他们寻常的一天:
灯不能熄灭,
音乐必须一直演奏,
所有的常规共同谋划
让这个堡垒采用家里的家具;
以免我们得知置身何处,
迷失在鬼魂出没的树林,
孩子们从未幸福或快乐
他们害怕黑夜。
权威人物呼出的
最强劲的军事垃圾
并不像我们想像的那样粗暴:
疯子尼金斯基所写的
关于迪亚吉列夫的一切
就像出自正常人的内心;
因为每个男人和女人
骨子里繁衍的谬误
渴求着无法获得之物,
并非普遍的爱
而是孤身一人被爱。
从保守的黑暗
进入伦理生活
密集的乘客们来了,
重复着早上的誓言:
“我将忠诚于妻子,
我将更专注地工作,”
无能的统治者醒来
继续他们的强制性游戏:
此时谁能让他们解脱,
谁能让聋子恢复听觉,
谁能为哑巴代言?
我所占有的只有声音
用来拆解折叠的谎言,
有血有肉的普通人
头脑中浪漫的谎言
以及其建筑高耸入云的
权威者的谎言;
没有任何事物如同这个国家
没有任何人单独存在;
饥饿让公民或警察
别无选择
我们必须相爱或者死去。
夜晚毫无设防
我们的世界在昏睡,
然而,在正义互换信息之处
讥讽的灯光在闪动
点缀着各处:
也许,我就像它们一样,
由爱和尘土构成,
被同样的虚无与绝望围攻,
放射出一束坚定的光芒。
附:布罗茨基:析奥登的《1939年9月1日》
http://www.douban.com/group/topic/3124453/
诗与艺术是精神的贵族,在这里,让我们仰望星空,唤醒沉睡的记忆。
关注空白,倾听心灵的声音。
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