托马斯诗歌：A Dedication to My Wife

托马斯诗歌：A Dedication to My Wife（共2篇）

托马斯诗歌：A Dedication to My Wife 篇1

Thomas Stearns Eilot

To whom I owe the leaping delight

That quickens my senses in our wakingtime

And the rhythm that governs the repose of our sleepingtime,

the breathing in unison.

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other

Who think the same thoughts without need of speech,

And babble the same speech without need of meaning...

No peevish winter wind shall chill

No sullen tropic sun shall wither

The roses in the rose-garden which is ours and ours only

But this dedication is for others to read:

These are private words addressed to you in public.

题献

托马斯·斯特恩斯·艾略特

你让我的欢乐狂奔疾驰，

在我们苏醒时激荡我的感知，

你的节奏掌控我们睡梦的休憩，

我们是一对爱人，同呼吸共生死。

我俩的体气相混难分彼此，

无需开口就想着一样的心思，

不用含意却絮叨相同的言词。

不畏严冬寒风的`鞭笞，

何惧酷暑骄阳的烤炙，

我们共有花园，玫瑰绽放永生永世。

这题献是为别人阅读的文字，

也是公开对你诉说的隐私。

托马斯诗歌：A Dedication to My Wife 篇2

Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England, and died after a short illness, on January 11, 1928, in Dorchester, Dorset, England;One of Hardy’s unusual claims to distinction as a poet is that his first book of verse was not published until he was fifty-eight and had already achieved fame as a novelist.

Philip Larkin was born in 1922 in Coventry, England.He attended St.John’s College, Oxford.His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945 and, though not particularly strong on its own, is notable insofar as certain passages foreshadow the unique sensibility and maturity that characterizes his later work.

They both wrote famous war poems, Hardy’s represented works are Drummer Hodge, Channel Firing, The Man He Killed and In Time of“The Breaking of Nations”, these poems are about different wars.While Larkin’s famous war poem is Church Going, which describes the England after the World War II.

II.War Poems

Channel Firing is spoken in the first person by one of the dead buried in a church, in which the windows have been shattered by the report (noise and vibration) of guns being fired for“practice”in the English Channel.So great is the disturbance that the skeletons believe Judgment Day to have come.

Church Going was written by Larkin after the World War II, the title is vague, and it contains two meanings:going to church or church is going.This poem demonstrates a more evenhanded critique of religion than Hitchens’.For while Larkin’s narrator is clearly ambivalent about the claims of the church, he also writes“Yet stop I did:in fact I often do”.

III.The Similarities between the War Poems

From the letters of the poems, readers cannot see a word about the war apparently.Hardy use“drummers, old man, girl, horse”, this kind of common people and things, it seems to describe a farm picture in peaceful and happy time.While Larkin prefers the daily life of common people, Church Going, written in first person, which tells of the circumstance of the church after the World War II.

Both these two poets use very simple and clear words to describe what the wars have brought to the common people.We cannot read a complex word in the poems.The poets use small words to declare big significance.They don’t condemn the wars apparently in their poems, however, from the poems we can get that they dislike the wars what brought no good.

IV.Conclusion

Hardy and Larkin are two famous poets, both they wrote poems about wars at different times.Both of them are pitiful for the common people, who have suffered in the wars.But they use different tones to tell readers the story, the sufferings, and the effects.We can not deny the feelings which the poets brought to us are so real.Though the poems are written by two poets and at different times and about different wars, they give readers the same feeling.

参考文献

[1]Williams, Merryn.A Preface to Hardy[M].Peking University Press, 2005.

[2]Shuohua Qi Willian W.Morgan.回应悲剧缪斯的呼应[M].上海:上海外语教育出版社, 2001.