更新。顶风作案——哈特·克兰:《万物之名》
万物之名
逃离我们纸页的月蛾和蚱蜢
仍继续振翅飞行,未被名字玷污
——我们必须残害的名字,我们用来
捆绑你们的身体,缓解我们对你们自由的妒忌
因为我们是篡位者,带着懊恼——
带着翅膀,让它在手里划伤。
我们拥有的名字,甚至,顶着风拍手叫好;
但我们必须死,像你们一样,才能理解。
我梦见所有男人都摒弃了自己的名字,他们唱起歌
就像只有名字才能歌颂,是名字造就他们的时日
用鳍和蹄,用翅膀和令人愉快的獠牙
名字总是重获自由和神圣,在唯一大写的名字下。
(沙织 译)
注:“我们”和“你们”,分别指月蛾、蚱蜢,或蚱蜢、月蛾,即万物的统称。“逃离我们纸页的月蛾和蚱蜢”差不多就是说,想在纸上写人,但人逃离了纸张。
A Name for All
Hart Crane(哈特・克兰)
Moonmoth and grasshopper that flee our page
And still wing on, untarnished of the name
We pinion to your bodies to assuage
Our envy of your freedom—we must maim
Because we are usurpers, and chagrined—
And take the wing and scar it in the hand.
Names we have, even, to clap on the wind;
But we must die, as you, to understand.
I dreamed that all men dropped their names, and sang
As only they can praise, who build their days
With fin and hoof, with wing and sweetened fang
Struck free and holy in one Name always.
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