[討論] New Yorker的詩

[spacedunce5 (CJ)]

我長久以來都不大了解刊在New Yorker上的詩，

總覺得除了偶爾獻出特殊技巧之外，

多半都沒什麼特色，或是保留太多東西 。




簡言之，我看不懂。




想請教板上的各位，

特別轉錄最新期的詩。




Vijay Seshadri, Visiting Paris

They were in the scullery talking.
The meadow had to be sold to pay their riotous expenses;
then the woods by the river,
with its tangled banks and snags elbowing out of the water,
had to go; and then the summer house where they talked—
all that was left of an estate once so big
a man riding fast on a fast horse
couldn’t cross it in a day. Genevieve. Hortense. Meme.
The family’s last born, whose pale name is inscribed on the rolls
of the Field of the Cloth of Gold. As in the fresco of the Virgin,
where the copper in the pigment oxidizes to trace a thin green cicatrix
along a seam of Her red tunic,
a suspicion of one another furrowed their
consanguine, averted faces.
Why go anywhere at all when it rains like this,
when the trees are sloppy and hooded
and the foot sinks to the ankle in the muddy lane?
I didn’t stay for the end of the conversation.
I was wanted in Paris. Paris, astounded by my splendor
and charmed by my excitable manner,
waited to open its arms to me.

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※ 編輯: spacedunce5     來自: 140.112.115.226      (01/31 11:07)
推 julians:it's about environmentalism and a crit
→ julians:ique of Paris, renowned a city of love
→ spacedunce5:could you be more specific?
推 julians:we usually take Paris as a city of love
推 julians:and romance, perhaps of legend and mys
→ julians:ticism. But there the lyrical speaker
→ julians:talks of his/her own splender and charm
→ julians:rather than the city in itself
→ julians:Paris is distinguished not for itself
→ julians:but for its relation to travellers.
→ julians:Btw, I shouldn't say "environmentalism"
→ julians:it's more about environment
推 julians:這詩還蠻不錯的阿. 要傳達的意境跟意念都
→ julians:很清楚,也沒有什麼贅言,也沒有刻意炫技
→ julians:可是又寫出了不一樣的旅行巴黎的經驗
→ spacedunce5:so it's a portrait of the environ-
→ spacedunce5:ment of . . . Paris? I can see the
→ spacedunce5:poem is finely worked and economi-
→ spacedunce5:cal in expression, I just don't get
→ spacedunce5:what it's trying to express= =
推 julians:against usual exp. of travel and memroy