介绍： Funeral Blues
by W.H.Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe ...

介绍： Funeral Blues
by W.H.Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

葬礼蓝调

画皮 译

叫钟全停下，电话关掉，
扔块多汁的骨头，让狗别叫，
让钢琴别出声，伴着低沉的鼓点
将棺材抬出，让哀悼者过来。

让飞机在头顶转圈呜咽
在空中涂抹一条消息——他死了。
给鸽子雪白的颈项系上绉绸，
让交警戴上黑色的棉手套。

他是我的北，我的南，我的东与西，
我的工作日我的休息日，
我的中午，我的午夜，我的谈话，我的歌，
我以为爱会天长地久：我错了。

现在星星不再需要，把它们统统打发，
把月亮收拾起，再把太阳拆下，
将大海倒空，将森林扫除；
因为如今什么都于事无补。

1.A classic elegy by W.H.Auden
- First appeared as a satiric eulogy for a politician in The Ascent of F6 (1937), a satiric play written by Auden, then a "Cabaret Song" about lost love.
- Became well-known because of its recitation in Four Weddings and A Funeral (1994).
- W.H.Auden: one of the greatest 20th century British-American poet, once visited China during the Sino-Japanese War and composed 23 poems concerning war-time China.

奥登与“经典哀歌”
《葬礼蓝调》最初是奥登为其政治讽刺剧本“The Ascent of F6”所作的一首讽刺诗，讽刺的对象是剧中一位死去的政治家。之后几年，奥登对这首诗做了修改，并献给了一位夜店女歌手。本诗在1994年的浪漫喜剧《四个婚礼和一个葬礼》放映后被广为人知，电影中的角色为其逝去的同性恋人朗读过这首诗。奥登是20世纪最伟大的诗人之一，生于英国，后获得美国国籍，他曾在二战期间到过中国抗日战场前线，并创作了23首诗歌。

2.Theme
- Hopelessness and sense of void after experiencing lost of a beloved one
- The dead: a public figure and an intimate beloved one to the narrator
- Building up silence in the first stanza, emphasizing on the moaning of the aeroplane in the second stanza
- Using verbs of which agent is usually human to convey the narrator’s hopelessness: the world is empty without his/her beloved one. (e.g. put out the stars, pack up the moon, dismantle the sun, pour away the ocean, sweep up the wood)

本诗描绘了在恋人逝去后，叙述者经历的绝望、悲痛和空虚。从诗中可以看出，逝者既是一位公众人物，也是叙述者最亲密的爱人，对于叙述者来说是整个世界。奥登的写作手法也非常有趣，第一第二小节中一边清除了世界上所有的声音，一边又仅留下与葬礼有关的哀声。末段“把星星统统打发，把月亮收拾起，再把太阳拆下，将大海倒空，将森林扫除”中的动词实施者是人，而实施对象却是自然事物，强调了叙述者在失去恋人后仿佛被夺去了世界那样悲痛，心中空空如也。

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