天亮之隙-toward-breaks-of-day-葉芝

TowardsBreakofDayW.B.YeatsA.N.Jeffaresrecordsthat"thepoemisanactualrecordofthedreamsexperiencedbythepoetandhiswifewhentheystayinginthePowerscourtArmsHotel,Enniskerry,Co.Wicklow,inJanuary1919."WasitthedoubleofmydreamThewomanthatbymelayDreamed,ordidwehalveadreamUnderthefirstcoldgleamofday?halvevt.把…分成兩半；把…減半；對分；平攤stanza1stanza2Ithought:“ThereisawaterfallUponBenBulbensideThatallmychildhoodcounteddear;WereItotravelfarandwideIcouldnotfindathingsodear.”MymemorieshadmagnifiedSomanytimeschildishdelight.放大的BenbulbinisalargerockformationinCountySligo,Ireland.他的母親（即威廉·巴特勒·葉芝的祖母）蘇珊·瑪麗·波雷克斯芬來自斯萊果郡（CountySligo）上一個盎格魯－愛爾蘭裔家族。詩人出生后不久，便遷至位于斯萊果的大家族中，他本人也一直認為是斯萊果郡孕育了自己真正的童年歲月。IwouldhavetoucheditlikeachildButknewmyfingercouldbuthavetouchedColdstoneandwater.Igrewwild.EvenaccusingHeavenbecauseIthadsetdownamongitslaws:Nothingthatweloveover-muchIsponderabletoourtouch.ponderable：有價值的

stanza3stanza4Idreamedtowardsbreakofday,Thecoldblownsprayinmynostril.ButshethatbesidemelayHadwatchedinbitterersleepThemarvellousstagofArthur,Thatloftywhitestag,leapFrommountainsteeptosteep.blown:喘氣的spray:噴霧stag:雄鹿dreamWhentwopeoplemeditateupontheonetheme,whohaveestablishedasupersensuallink,theywillinvariablyinmyexperiencenomatterhowmanymilesapart,seepassbeforethemind'seyecomplementaryimagesthatcompleteoneanother.Oneforinstancemayseeaboatuponastillseafulloftumultuospeople,andtheotheraboatfullofmotionlesspeopleuponatumultuoussea.Evenwhenthelinkismomenaryandsuperficialthistakesplaces,andsometimesincludeswithinitsrangeaconsiderablenumberofpeople.Oneforinstance,willreceivefromadreamfigurearipeapple,anotheranunripe;onealightedandoneanunlightedcandleandsoon.Onthesamenightamotherwilldreamthatherchildisdeadordying,thechildthathermotherisdead,whilethefahterwillwakeinthenightwithasuddeninexplicableanxiatyforsomematerialtreasure.Iputanexperienceofthekindintothepoemthatbegins—Wasitthedoubleofmydream,...(AV(A)173)dreamimagesawaterfall:possiblythewaterfallatGlencar.

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袁可嘉譯那躺在我邊上的女人做的夢，是我夢的重現，還是我們各做一半夢在白晝最初的冷光下面？

我想：“有一條瀑布在本·布爾本山旁，我小時最最喜愛；要是我云游四面八方，也找不到這么可愛的東西。”我的記憶已放大了好多倍，我童年時代的樂趣。我想像個孩子摸摸它，但我知道我的手