2017-11-11

【Aiden in English】

The night is dark, the stars are out and bright           A

Far down below, the mighty ships asail,                   B

The crew asleep, how dark and deep, no light              A

Though guided by the glow of heaven rays.                 B - Metaphor

A gust of wind, a roll of unseen waves                    C

Sends boats astray from their safe own old ways.          D

In depths of darkness, ’pears a fearful haze.            C

That covers sky and stars for days on days.               D

The captain sighs, the sailors cry for land               E

A star breaks the demonic dreary song                     F - Metaphor

Extending light, a friendly helping hand,                 E

Only to find the final ship long gone.                    F

→ But waves churn on, the stars roam far and free,       G

→ The universe sees, and does not care for thee.         G

Focus Areas (寫作要點):

    14 Lines (十四行)

    Rhyme Scheme (韻律)

    Shift (轉換)

    Couplet Clincher (對句手法)

    The figure of Speech (修辭)

    Iambic Pentameter (10 Lines) (十行抑揚格五音步)

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2014: Compare/Contrast: Jerry and Lupe(對比─傑瑞和盧普)

2013: Descriptive―Fly(記敘文―飛翔)

Shakespeare Watermarked (莎士比亞水印)

〖Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare〗

        Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

        Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

        Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

        And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:

        Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

        And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd;

        And every fair from fair sometime declines,

        By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

        But thy eternal Summer shall not fade，

        Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

        Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

        When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

        So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

        So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

附：〖莎士比亞十四行詩第18首〗

梁宗岱譯

                我怎麼能夠把你來比作夏天？

                你不獨比它可愛也比它溫婉：

                狂風把五月寵愛的嫩蕊作踐，

                夏天出賃的期限又未免太短：

                天上的眼睛有時照得太酷烈，

                它那炳耀的金顏又常遭掩蔽：

                被機緣或無常的天道所摧折，

                沒有芳艷不終於雕殘或銷毀。

                但是你的長夏永遠不會雕落，

                也不會損失你這皎潔的紅芳，

                或死神誇口你在他影里漂泊，

                當你在不朽的詩里與時同長。

                只要一天有人類，或人有眼睛，

                這詩將長存，並且賜給你生命。

曾瑜陽譯

                夏日縱好怎及君？

                清麗溫婉自超群；

                五月花香惡風妒，

                夏之芬芳如煙雲。

                天眼高灼炎難耐，

                暗淡容光久不開；

                自古天公愛愚弄，

                多少紅顏終色衰。

                恆久夏日不凋零，

                嬌顏風姿倒乾坤；

                死神到此含羞退，

                君之芳名入詩文。

                人跡罕絕山無棱，

                此詩伴君續香魂。

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