介绍： On The Balcony
by D. H. Lawrence

In front of the sombre mountains, a faint, lost ribbon of rainbow;
And between us and it, the thunder;
And down below in the green wheat, the labourers
Stand like dark stumps, still in the green wheat.

You are near to me, and your naked feet in their sandals,
And through...

介绍： On The Balcony
by D. H. Lawrence

In front of the sombre mountains, a faint, lost ribbon of rainbow;
And between us and it, the thunder;
And down below in the green wheat, the labourers
Stand like dark stumps, still in the green wheat.

You are near to me, and your naked feet in their sandals,
And through the scent of the balcony's naked timber
I distinguish the scent of your hair: so now the limber
Lightning falls from heaven.

Adown the pale-green glacier river floats
A dark boat through the gloom - and whither?
The thunder roars. But still we have each other!
The naked lightnings in the heavens dither
And disappear - what have we but each other?
The boat has gone.

1.The controversial D.H.Lawrence
- Usually recognized as a British modernist writer
- A controversial figure in terms of his radical political opinions and disputable attitudes on feminism
- Once received a trail on obscene contents in his last novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
- The Penguin Books’ publisher's dedication: "For having published this book, Penguin Books were prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act, 1959 at the Old Bailey in London from 20 October to 2 November 1960. This edition is therefore dedicated to the twelve jurors, three women and nine men, who returned a verdict of 'Not Guilty' and thus made D. H. Lawrence's last novel available for the first time to the public in the United Kingdom."

D.H.劳伦斯在20世纪是一位极富争议性的作家。他的政治立场较为偏激，对于女性问题的态度也模棱两可，一方面他年轻时曾支持女权运动，另一方面，女性主义批评家却认为他小说中的女性形象实质上都在为巩固男权社会服务。其中最具争议性的作品是他的最后一部小说《查特莱夫人的情人》，曾因语言和内容过于低俗色情被告上法庭，企鹅图书在1961年重新出版该书时在扉页记录了这一事件。

2.Man and nature
- Various images of nature: rainbow, thunder, lightning, green wheat, timber
- Images of human beings: the narrator and his companion (depicted as individuals) vs the labourers (depicted as a passive collective)
- Interaction between man and nature through senses: “ And through the scent of the balcony's naked timber/I distinguish the scent of your hair”

在这首短诗中，劳伦斯向我们提供了一组来自自然界的意象，包括彩虹，闪电，麦田，木头等，也提供了两组关于人类的意象，分别是“我和你”和麦田里静止不动的工人。其中两个有关人类的意象有细微的差别，“我和你”的描写非常详细，而工人们只被描写成一个被动的群体。从“我”通过木头的气味感受到“你”头发上的香味这一细节可以看出，劳伦斯在此诗中也探索了人与自然互动的方式：通过感官这种原始的人类本能。

3.Isolation and nakedness
- Although the narrator and his companion seemed isolated from the rest of the world (the still labourers, the dark boat disappearing into gloom), faint and lost like the rainbow, they still bore a gleam of hope because they had each other.
- Why Lawrence stresses “nakedness” as in “naked feet”, “naked timber” and “naked lightning”? To what extent does it demonstrate Lawrence’s idea of sexuality and human instinct?

个人觉得本诗的另一个主题是孤立。这首诗描写的内容非常简单，两人（也许是情侣？）站在阳台上，看着彩虹和闪电，一艘船从黑暗中驶过，又消失在黑暗中。两位主角看似孤立无援，就像那道微弱迷茫的彩虹，但其实他们心中仍存有一丝希望，他们还拥有彼此。劳伦斯在这首诗中用了三个“裸露的”来形容双脚、木头和闪电。为什么要用“裸露的”来形容闪电？这是否和劳伦斯常在作品中探讨的人类本能有关？

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