2023-01-22 Spring Festival

【Esthétique du Mal·XV (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The greatest poverty is not to live

        In a physical world, to feel that one's desire

        Is too difficult to tell from despair. Perhaps,

        After death, the non-physical people, in paradise,

        Itself non-physical, may, by chance, observe

        The green corn gleaming and experience

        The minor of what we feel. The adventurer

        In humanity has not conceived of a race

        Completely physical in a physical world.

        The green corn gleams and the metaphysicals

        Lie sprawling in majors of the August heat,

        The rotund emotions, paradise unknown.

        This is the thesis scrivened in delight,

        The reverberating psalm, the right chorale.

        One might have thought of sight, but who could think

        Of what it sees, for all the ill it sees?

        Speech found the ear, for all the evil sound,

        But the dark italics it could not propound,

        And out of what one sees and hears and out

        Of what one feels, who could have thought to make

        So many selves, so many sensuous worlds,

        As if the air, the mid-day air, was swarming

        With the metaphysical changes that occur

        Merely in living as and where we live.

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【《惡之美學·之十五》(1945年)】

華萊士·史蒂文斯“異鄉人·花環”(1879生—1955卒)

【紅霞譯】

            最大的貧窮不是生活

            在物質世界中，感覺人的慾念

            很難從絕望中分辨出來。也許，

            死了以後，非物質的人們，在天堂，

            非物質本身，可以，偶然地，觀察到

            青玉米閃閃發光並去體驗

            我們所感受的細微變化。人類冒險者

            從來都沒想過

            在物質世界中有一個非常物質化的種族。

            青玉米閃閃發光而形而上學

            趴在八月炎熱的酷暑里，

            圓潤的情感，意想不到的天堂。

            命題躍然而出，

            迴蕩的聖歌，正確的詩篇。

            人們也許想到了視覺，但誰能想到

            它眼見的對象，因為所有目睹的邪惡？

            言語找到了耳朵，因為所有邪惡的聲音，

            卻成為無法提出嚴酷的斜體字，

            從人們的所見所聞及其

            所感，誰能想到

            這麼多的自我，這麼多的感性世界，

            仿佛空氣，正午的天空，充斥着

            形而上學的變化

            僅僅生活在我們生活的地方。

【注】這首詩歌描述正確的讚美詩歌手。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2010 小學一年級的色彩(Colorful Life in 1st Grade)

1^st Lunar New Year of Goat @ Marie-Henry's House in USA

(海之星—統帥家·來美第一個羊年春節 02-15-1991)

Year of Dog @ Rockefeller Univ, NYC

(紐約黑麥田大學·狗年春節 02-10-1994)

Pyramid of the Moon @ Teotihuacan, Mexico

(墨西哥神誕生地·月亮金字塔 02-16-2002)

Toddler-I of the 1^st BD Celebration @ Home, NJ

(新州本家第一個生日慶典·小幼兒生 02-22-2004)

Toddler-II of 2-Yr-Old @ Year of Rooster

(雞年兩歲慶典·大幼兒生 02-20-2005)

Preschool-I for Year of Dog @ Home, PA

(賓州本家狗年春節·小幼童生 01-29-2006)

Kindergartener @ Year of Earth Ox in Aruba

(阿魯巴土牛春節·學前班生 01-29-2009)

2^nd Grader for Year of Rabbit @ Lailai Garden, PA

(賓州來來花園中餐館兔年春節·小學二年級生 02-03-2011)

Gala for Year of Snake @ Guanghua Chinese School, PA

(賓州光華中文學校·蛇年春晚 02-10-2013)

6^th Grader for Year of Goat @ Eastern Dragon, PA

(賓州龍園中餐館羊年春節·初一生 02-19-2015)

9^th Grader for Year of Dog @ Golden City Chinese Restaurant, PA

(賓州金城中餐館狗年春節·高一生 02-16-2018)

Year of Rat @ Joy Chalet, PA

(賓州聚友坊·鼠年春節 01-25-2020)

The Sophomore for Year of Bunny @ Golden City Chinese Restaurant, PA

(賓州金城中餐館兔年春節·大二生 01-22-2023)

The Sophomore Back to School on Lunar New Year's Day

(兔年春節當天返校日·大二生 01-22-2023)

Crosslinks(相關博文):

2022 Back-to-School Day in Newark, NJ

Sophomore(大學二年級'2022-23)