全文如下:SONNET 8Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering, Resembling sire and child and happy mother Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing: Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'
以下是分析: 第一小節:Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly, Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
第一二行:俊男啊,你聽音樂時為何感覺悲哀?人們常說:甜甜不打仗,快樂與快樂相得益彰。“Music to hear"指美男子的聲音好聽如樂音。 第三四行:你為何花時間去聽讓自己不開心的音樂?或者,你從不快中獲得某種愉悅? ”甜甜不打仗,快樂與快樂相得益彰“。然而,俊男(美少年)在聽音樂時似乎情緒低落,為何?詩人接着又問了兩個相關的問題。這兩個反問都在指向下文的推論。 第二小節:If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
第五六行:如果和諧悅耳的樂音, 因結合而生,卻令你耳目不悅, 第七八行:它們只是溫柔地責備你:你在單身中躲避了你本應承擔的責任。 音樂之和諧在於樂音之間的結合“union","married"。而俊男不喜歡音樂,也許是因為音樂在責備他選擇單身。 選擇單身的結果是沒有家庭,從而躲避了本該承擔的為人父母的責任。家庭被認為是人生和諧的一個重要部分。單身不育就是拒不承擔個體對人生的責任。 第三小節(最後六句):Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering; Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing: Whose speechless song being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: ‘Thou single wilt prove none.’
第九至十二行:一根琴弦是另一根的甜蜜的夫君,樂師循序敲擊它們;就好像父親、兒子與快樂的母親。 第十三、十四行:他們合奏出悅耳的曲調:無詞的歌曲眾多卻像同一首,都在向你唱道:“你單身,終將一無所有。” 全詩的翻譯如下: 聆聽音樂,為何你卻情緒低落? 人們說:甜甜不打仗,快樂與快樂相得益彰。 為何你花時間去聽讓自己不開心的音樂? 或者,你從不快中獲得某種愉悅? 如果和諧悅耳的樂音, 因結合而生,卻令你耳目不悅, 它們只是溫柔地責備你: 單身讓你躲避了本應承擔的責任。 一根琴弦是另一根甜蜜的夫君 樂師循序敲擊它們; 如同父親、兒子與快樂的母親。 他們合奏出悅耳的曲調: 這無言之歌,曲調眾多卻渾然如一, 向你唱道:“你單身,終將一無所有。”
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