The corporeality of "Damon's Epitaph" illuminates we can see the unorthodox direction in which Milton's Lycidas is tending.
达蒙的墓志铭》的物质性刚好诠释了,《利西达斯》离经叛道的倾向。
He conjures the indecorous image of the dead Lycidas under the whelming tide visiting the bottom of the monstrous sea.
他想象死去的利西达斯,在排山倒海的浪潮覆盖下拜访尽是妖怪的海底。
He asks the gods what has happened to Lycidas and who exactly was responsible for the sinking of Lycidas' ship.
他问众神利西达斯怎么了,是谁让他的船沉没的。
We looked last time at Saint Peter's declamatory speech in Lycidas, and we spent a lot of time on it.
我们上次读过了圣彼得在“利西达斯“中说的话,花了很长时间研究这段话。
Another way into this problem: let's look at the comments that Dr. Johnson made about Milton's Lycidas in the eighteenth century.
看这个问题的另一个角度:让我们看看,约翰逊博士在18世纪队弥尔顿的《利西达斯》所做的评论。
You can see on the handout those poems by those classical authors that Milton's Lycidas is most indebted to.
讲义上有这些经典作者的经典诗作,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是受这些诗作的启发写成的。
And it's at the height of this vision of our floral decoration of Lycidas' hearse that the speaker is suddenly caught up short.
都到了用鲜花装饰利西达斯的灵车,的时候了读者才突然领会到。
Six years later when Milton writes Lycidas, he's employing the same fiction of unreadiness and filled with all of the same anxiety of under-preparedness.
六年后弥尔顿写《利西达斯》的时候,表现的还是这种未准备好的状态,充满了同样的为薄发而厚积时的焦躁。
Professor John Rogers: The best way, I think, to introduce the central issues of this wonderful poem, Lycidas, is to return to Milton's Comus.
约翰·罗杰斯教授:我认为,要向你们介绍《利西达斯》,这首精彩的诗的精髓,最好的方法莫过于,回顾一下弥尔顿的《科玛斯》
Johnson tells us that Lycidas is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion, for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions.
约翰逊说《利西达斯》不是,真挚情感的流露,因为真情不是通过遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点来表达的。
The speaker of the poem mourns the death of the shepherd-poet Lycidas and describes this parade, this procession of mourners who make their tribute to the deceased.
牧歌》第十首中的讲述者哀悼牧羊人诗人利西达斯的逝去,描述了一行送葬者们,向逝去的人献礼的情景。
But the unmistakable physicality of the heaven imagined in the poem about Diodati gives us some idea, I think, of how to read the end of Lycidas.
但在关于迪奥达蒂的这首诗中弥尔顿所想象的,天堂的物质性是无可置疑的,这能给我们一些启发,帮我们理解《利西达斯》的结尾。
Is Lycidas an appropriate expression of grief over the death of Edward King, and furthermore, ? does it console others for their grief over Edward King's death?
利西达斯》是否恰当的表达出了,对爱德华·金之死的哀悼?,进一步说,它能否抚慰人们为爱德华·金之死的悲痛?
As in Sonnet Seven, Milton writes the first verse paragraph of this great poem, Lycidas -- the first fourteen lines - in essentially the form of a sonnet.
如同《十四行诗第七首》,弥尔顿写《利西达斯》,这首伟大的诗的开头--头14行时,-用的还是十四行诗的形式。
You can figure Milton asking in this poem Lycidas if it's true: is it true what the Elder Brother said, ? that virtue is always rewarded and evil punished?
可以看出在《利西达斯》中弥尔顿是在问:,《科玛斯》中哥哥所说的,善有善报恶有恶报是真的么?
To the extent that Lycidas' body has been recovered, that it's been redeemed, Milton is able -- perhaps successfully, Milton is able to justify the ways of God to men.
利西达斯的身体最终愈合了,被救赎了,这样弥尔顿就得以--或许是成功的,证明了上帝待人之法。
Now for next time we'll be reading Lycidas, which is about the death of a friend -- and the death of a friend, in fact, who died a virgin, we have to assume.
下一次我们将开始阅读《利西达斯》,是关于一位朋友的死亡,事实上这位死去的朋友是位处女,这我们得设想。
The fact that the death here in Lycidas is the death of a young, virginal poet at the very outset of his career, as you can imagine, resonates in a lot of powerful ways.
利西达斯》中的死者是一个年轻,还未失童真,事业刚要起步的年轻人,可以想象,这与弥尔顿有很强烈的共鸣。
Lycidas' death -- remember this is the poem that Milton didn't want to write, he was "forc'd" to write it -Lycidas' death allows the uncouth swain to grow up and to move on.
利西达斯的死-记住这是一首,弥尔顿并不想完成的诗,他是被迫的,使得这个粗鄙的年轻人能够成长并继续前进。
Okay. Famously, Dr. Johnson couldn't bear this poem, Lycidas - Dr. Johnson, the greatest of all literary critics of the eighteenth century.
好的,众所周知,约翰逊博士受不了《利西达斯》这首诗,-约翰逊博士,18世纪最伟大的文学评论家。
In Lycidas Milton doesn't let himself, thank God, go quite so far as he does in this amazing ending to "Damon's Epitaph."
感谢上帝,在《利西达斯》中,弥尔顿做的不像,他在《达蒙的墓志铭》的结尾那样过火“
And as if that weren't terrible enough a realization, he goes on to envision an even more grotesque end for Lycidas' body.
似乎这还不够可怕,弥尔顿又进一步给利西达斯的尸体想象了更加怪诞的结局。
Where were ye Nymphs, when the remorseless deep / clos'd o'er " the head of your lov'd Lycidas?"
诗歌大意:,“女神们,你们在哪里,当无情的海水漫过你们挚爱的利西达斯的头顶“
Now Lycidas, and this is undeniable, is ostensibly, and maybe more than ostensibly, an elegy.
利西达斯》,不可否认,显而易见,或许不止是显而易见,是一首悼亡诗。
Lycidas is going to shampoo his hair in heaven much as he shampooed his hair on earth, except in heaven there's always a difference.
利西达斯在天堂也要洗头发,正如在人间一样,但在天堂总会有点不同。
It's as if Lycidas has died so that Milton could live to become a great poet.
似乎利西达斯依然死去,因此弥尔顿才得以继续存活,并成为一个伟大的诗人。
Lycidas' untimely death seems to enable Milton to master his own fears of untimeliness.
利西达斯不合时宜的死亡似乎,使得弥尔顿能够掌握他自己对于不合时宜的恐惧。
The body of Lycidas, even in death, is of an unusual interest to our poet.
利西达斯的身体,即使死了,对弥尔顿来说也很重要。
No sooner has the speaker asked this question -- and you see this rhythm, this dynamic, appear continually throughout Lycidas - he asks the question, and then immediately he acknowledges the inadequacy of the question.
刚问完这个问题--这种节奏,这种动态是贯穿《利西达斯》始终的,-刚问完这个问题,弥尔顿又立即承认了,这个问题是不适当的。
All of the self-discipline and all of the self-denial in the world can do nothing -- this seems to be one of the implications of this poem - can do nothing to protect the poet from an untimely death.
所有的自律和自我克制,都无能为力--这似乎是《利西达斯》的含义之一,-所有这些都无法避免这位诗人的早逝。
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