Lines-Written-in-Early-Spring翻譯及賞析

1、Lines Written in Early SpringBy William WordsworthI heard a thousand blended (和諧的)notes, While in a grove（小樹林） I sat reclined（斜倚）, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my he

2、art to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts（報春花叢）, in that green bower（閨房）, The periwinkle（蔓長春花） trailed its wreaths（花環(huán)）; And tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped（蹦跳） and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure: But the least motion

3、which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs（嫩樹枝） spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Natures holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

4、推薦精選賞析:威廉·華茲華斯（17701850）是英國19世紀著名的浪漫派詩人，他對自然的熱愛以及他大部分人生所度過的地方-湖區(qū)的湖光山色對他的性格和作品有著深遠的影響。早春詩行描寫了詩人坐在樹蔭下享受大自然美景的情景。詩中三，四和第五小節(jié)描繪了一幅歡樂的“花鳥樹草”圖。詩人雖然無法知道櫻草花，常春藤，鳥兒和花蕾有何真實感受，但從花兒鮮艷的色彩和鳥兒歡快的叫聲中，他感受到世間萬物都在享受大自然的清新和美麗，每一個姿態(tài)和動作都展示它們正在迸發(fā)的興奮和快樂。 在這樣歡樂的氣氛中，詩人本應投入大自然的懷抱，盡情享受自然的美麗，然而，在這充滿春的歡樂的季節(jié)里，詩人想到的卻是“人怎樣對待著人”

5、。從萬物的歡樂中，華茲華斯想到了人間的痛苦和悲傷。他認為，人本為大自然的一部分，理應加入大自然歡樂的海洋，但是人間的情況卻不是如此，是人類自身造成了人間的痛苦和悲傷。詩歌含蓄地表達了作者對世間不平的抗議和對公平社會的渴望。推薦精選寫于早春華茲華斯我躺臥在樹林之中，聽著融諧的千萬聲音，閑適的情緒，愉快的思想，卻帶來的憂心忡忡。大自然把她的美好事物通過我聯(lián)系人的靈魂，而我痛心萬分，想起了人怎樣對待著人。 那邊綠蔭中的櫻草花叢，有長春花在把花圈編制，我深信每朵花不論大小，都能享受它呼吸的空氣。四周的鳥兒跳了又耍，我不知道他們想寫什么，但他們每個細微的動作，似乎都激起心頭的歡樂。 

6、萌芽的嫩枝張膊如扇，捕捉那陣陣的清風，使我沒發(fā)不深切地感受到，它們也自有歡欣， 如果上天叫我這樣相信，如果這是大自然的用心，難道我沒有理由悲嘆人怎樣對待著人？王佐良譯推薦精選推薦精選Comments1:In "Lines Written in Early Spring", Wordsworth achieves the goal he sets for himself in his "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" - "to choose situations from common life, an

7、d to relate or describe them.in a selection of language really used by men, and at the same time to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination". Wordsworth describes Nature as being a composer, creating a symphony of "blended notes". The scene appears to be entirely sweet and

8、pleasant, and yet gives way to "sad thoughts" in the speaker's mind. The speaker observes that all of Nature's creations appear to be enjoying themselves - the flowers "enjoy" the air they breathe, the birds take pleasure in their movements, as do the "budding twigs&

9、quot;. The speaker recognizes that man is also one of Nature's creations - "To her fair works did Nature link/The human soul that through me ran" (lines 5-6). However, man is also a creator, and can create himself ("What man has made of man" - line 8). Man's "self cr

10、eation" goes against Nature's "plan" that all natural things should enjoy themselves, as man does not necessarily take pleasure in every moment of life. This thought causes the speaker himself to "grieve" - thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Comments2:The opening

11、stanza of William Wordsworths “Lines Written in Early Spring” sets the tone for the underlying theme of the poem: Wordsworths narrator reclining in a grove where his thoughts are allowed to flow uninterrupted in what Wordsworth describes as “In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts / Bring sad thou

12、ghts to the mind.” (3-4). Importantly, these last two lines of the first quatrain easily catch a reader off guard. The quiet and descriptively serene setting seems to have brought Wordsworths narrator to a state of uninhibited inward contemplation of the external civilized world, and found this subj

13、ect of thought emotionally disturbing. Indeed, one of Romanticisms greatest virtues is found in its appreciation for intimate and emotional deliberation, and Wordsworth, staying true to what seems to be an inherit disposition, finds himself overtaken by his otherwise distracted worries thanks to the

14、 peaceful setting in which he finds himself in “Lines Written in Early Spring”. It is the second stanza of William Wordsworths “Lines Written in Early Spring” that we are given the theme of the poem when Wordsworth writes “And much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man.” (7 and 8).

15、 Wordsworth, in his reflection of “What man has made of man” (8), is describing how mankind, though civilized, has an innate spiritual connection to “Nature” and “her fair works” (4). Essentially, Wordsworths “Lines Written in Early Spring” revolves around this Romantic theme of how beautiful and es

16、sential our intrinsic connection to nature is, and how unfortunate and painful our self-inflicted disconnection has become. Wordsworth writes in “Lines Written in Early Spring” of how nature offers a wholesome and natural lifestyle that Wordsworth feels has been lost to the pointlessness and monoton

17、ous of civilization and the pursuit of contemporary capitalistic gain. The following three stanzas of William Wordsworths “Lines Written in Early Spring” describe the natural scenery around Wordsworths narrator as he sits in his emotionally sensitive mood, contemplating how life in the forest seems

18、so beautiful and satisfying compared to life in civilization. Wordsworth goes on to describe what he sees as “pleasure” as “every flower / Enjoys the air it breathes” (11-12), and the birds that hopped and played around him were written with every “l(fā)east motion which they made” (15) “seemed a thrill

19、 of pleasure” (16). Wordsworth goes so far as to describe “pleasure” in the very “budding twigs” (17) that spread their leaves to catch the “breezy air” (18). Wordsworth sees blissful life and vitality all around him as he sits in the glade, so ignorant of factories, human waste and conflict, that t

20、hese natural creatures have achieved a state of paradise by simply existing as nature had intended: free of civilization and in a state of natural grace. It is this lifestyle that Wordsworth is jealous of and wishes that mankind could somehow return to in much the same way he would later describe in

21、 “The World is Too Much With Us” (1807). It is also this lifestyle that gives Wordsworth reason to pity mankind for their empty pursuits and meaningless lifestyles. The final stanza concludes William Wordsworths “Lines Written in Early Spring” with the lines “If such be Nature's holy plan, / Hav

22、e I not reason to lament / What man has made of man?” (22-24); not only repeating the eighth line of “What man has made of man” (8) in the last, but also driving home Wordsworths main theme of “Lines Written in Early Spring”. To Wordsworth, “Natures holy plan” (22) is for mankind to live as an intri

23、cate part of nature, surrendering to quiet cottages and subsistence farming, away from the bleak and pointless miseries of city life. Man, in “Lines Written in Early Spring”, has successfully perverted his nature and is so condemned to the incomplete and aimless existence of civilization. Wordsworth

24、 “l(fā)ament(s) / What man has made of man” (23-24) because “Nature”, a divine and motherly deity-like figure, had intended much more for mankind, pleasure and happiness in a wonderful natural lifestyle, but they have estranged themselves from their natural roots and have so essentially destroyed themse

25、lves in their pointless aims of contemporary pursuits. William Wordsworths “Lines Written in Early Spring” was one of Wordsworths first Romantic poems, but, thanks to its depth and spirited writing, “Lines Written in Early Spring” could also be argued as not only one of Wordsworths best works of lit

26、erary Romanticism, but also possessing some of the greatest lines of Romantic philosophy (i.e. “What man has made of man” (8 and 24). “Lines Written in Early Spring” encompasses Romanticism almost entirely, and Wordsworths writing would continue for a lifetime afterwards. In many ways, “Lines Writte

27、n in Early Spring” would set the tone for Wordsworths poety; Wordsworth thereafter wrestling with the same theme of “Lines Written in Early Spring” and lamenting civilization and “What man has made of man.”推薦精選Comment3INTRODUCTIONThis poem is a ballad which is included in the collection named Lyrica

28、l Ballads, a volume published in 1798 along with Coleridge, who had become his friend, although this volume neither had Coleridges nor Wordsworths name as authors. A second edition was published in 1800 under Wordsworth name which supposed a problem between both authors which threw them apart for a

29、while. In the edition of 1802 Wordsworth wrote a preface as well as some more poems were included. In this preface Wordsworth attempts to explain the poems contained as experiments in which the use of language is different from the classic poems and the complexity and highness of it. He talks about

30、writing poetry for men in the language of men. As he expresses in his preface to the third edition:“Whats a poet? He is a man speaking to men. ” . Lyrical Ballads, 1802 Volume I, preface.His aim with these poems was to talk about situations in common life, that is why he chose to communicate with an

31、 easy language as well as he preferred rural life as, this, was part of his idea that nature surroundings are the ideal place where man could find himself and his essence, and because in this rural environment these passions could be framed in the beautiful Nature. In Nature ambits, far from social

32、vanity, men communicate their thoughts and feelings in a simple language, without the ornamentation used in previous times in poetry where deep human questions where dealt with. It is possible then, that, under Wordsworths look, philosophical language, the one used to express human desires and thoug

33、hts is more suitable as easier it is since it tries to communicate emotions men have experienced in their inner beings before expressing them. The purpose of the poems is: “namely to illustrate the manner in which our feelings and ideas are associated in a state of excitement”. Lyrical Ballads, 1802

34、 Volume I, preface. Understanding this state of excitement as the state reached by human mind in contact with nature, the representation of what may be seen as God. And a poet is that who knows well about this Nature, the universe, and what surrounds human kind and expresses the passions and emotion

35、s it causes on men in a pleasant way to others. Because he “considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting qualities of nature.” Lyrical Ballads, 1802 Volume I, preface. ANALYSIS/ASSESSMENTThe poem we have

36、 here is a ballad composed in six quatrains; six stanzas of four lines, being each line composed by four iambic feet. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GHGH, DIDI, JDJD.I HEARD a thousand blended notes, AWhile in a grove I sate reclined, BIn that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts ABring sad thou

37、ghts to the mind. BIn the first quatrain Wordsworth looks at Nature and through his views sad thoughts come to his mind. Here he expresses his conviction in that knowledge of reality is reached through emotions and intuitions that Nature generates at being observed by man. Being Nature the real repr

38、esentation of reality and godliness as well. 推薦精選To her fair works did Nature link CThe human soul that through me ran; DAnd much it grieved my heart to think CWhat man has made of man. DIn the second stanza the poet uses a figure of speech called personification by which he gives Nature the ability

39、 to create at her will elements, what he calls “her fair works”, and make the human soul that lives in the poet feel linked with them. This is a way of humanizing Nature by giving her the feature of being a creator which could be seen as an attribution to the Nature of the concept of God, understood

40、 as that who performs reality at his own will. In third and fourth verses, the poet expresses the affliction this knowledge causes to his soul, and he wonders about the direction taken by mankind, as he does again at the end of the poem.Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, EThe periwinkle tr

41、ailed its wreaths; F And 'tis my faith that every flower EEnjoys the air it breathes. FIn the third quatrain he observes Nature, at its peak, in all its splendour and beauty. He tells about its dynamic development when he describes how the periwinkle trains its branches through the grass. He als

42、o displays his implication in this development of natural events expressing his desire for the flowers to rejoice at their existence.In the third and fourth verses we can see a personification again, when flowers are endowed with particular human abilities such breathing and enjoying.The birds aroun

43、d me hopped and played, GTheir thoughts I cannot measure:- HBut the least motion which they made GIt seemed a thrill of pleasure. He continues to observe nature and describes the birds playing and hopping around him, he says he cannot measure their thoughts. This again shows how Wordsworth gives hum

44、an attributes to the elements of Nature being the action of thinking and making elaborate thoughts part of the human condition. But it shows too, how, through his only observation, he cannot reach the knowledge of their thinking. Although by his observations he supposes his last movement was one exp

45、ressing pleasure.The budding twigs spread out their fan, DTo catch the breezy air; IAnd I must think, do all I can, DThat there was pleasure there. I 20Again, he provides will to events occurring in Nature: the newborn branches expand to get the air they need, and, once more, attributes to elements

46、the capacity to feel, and enjoy their existence. These opinions derive from his long observations of this place and its nature.If this belief from heaven be sent, JIf such be Nature's holy plan, DHave I not reason to lament JWhat man has made of man? DHe wonders if the will and the ability to en

47、joy the simple development of life by every natural element which he observes are sent from heaven, and next he considers whether it may be as well a holy plan of Nature. He gives again, as seen in the second stanza, godly attributes to Nature, as creator of life and death, as the force compelling t

48、he world. She is able to plan and, moreover, to develop a holy plan. If this holy plan is created deliberately, with its harmony and beauty, the humankind, with their wars and their unnatural activities, have moved away from what stills can be glimpsed in natural events, and it is because of this he

49、 regrets what man has made of man.推薦精選ACCORDING TO WORDSWORTH MOMENTWordsworth wrote this poem while he went for a walk in a spot near the village of Alford, he describes the moment and the place as a natural scene in motion, branches looking for the sun trying to escape from the water where its tre

50、e had fallen and had remained as a natural bridge and water falling down a sloping rock. Through this image we can imagine the sounds and the moment described in the poem. His real communion with Nature is shown in these verses, by his observations and his feelings on the different events, the growing of the periwinkle, the birds recreation or the branches breathing and his idea of the ability of these elements t