作者littlebinroy (Ulysses)
看板poetry
标题Re: allotrias diai Cynaikos (Frank Thompson)
时间Thu Jan 6 20:20:12 2005
※ 引述《Astrophil (apple)》之铭言:
: ※ 引述《flying49 (小郁)》之铭言:
: : 是Frank Thompson写的
: : 作品名称叫做 allotrias diai Cynaikos (为了别人老婆的缘故)
: : 1940年写成,应该是英文没错 虽然他的标题看起来不是现代英文.....
: : 连英文都不像.......
: : 在宇宙波澜这本书理有提到(disturbing the universe)这首诗
: 这本书(原文)在 中兴大学, 彰化师大, 中山大学, 高雄第一科技大学 的图书馆有.
: 这首诗在 35 页左右吧. 看有没有人去借出来, 再好心 copy 出来.
: PS. Frank Thompson 是大名鼎鼎的 E. P. Thompson 的哥哥,
: 也是近来很红的 Iris Murdoch 的初恋情人. 可惜战争夺走了他年轻的生命.
I found this poem according to Astrophil's amazing memory and erudition.
It's exactly on page 35 of_Disturbing the Universe_, in an article
entitled "The Blood of a Poet."
Allotrias diai Gynaikos (For the sake of another man's wife),
Agamemnon 437-451
Between the dartboard and the empty fireplace
They are talking of the boys the village has lost;
Tom, our best bowler all last season,
Died clean and swift when his plane went reeling;
Bill, who drank beer and laughed, is now asleep
Behind Dunkirk, helped others to escape;
And Dave went down on that aircraft carrier,
Dave, whom nobody minded,
But who played the flute rather well, I remember.
"These boys died bravely. We'll always be proud of them,
They've given old Adolf something to set him thinking."
That was the loudest, the driving wave of opinion.
But in the corners hear the eddies singing—
"For the sake of another man's wife."
They died in a war of others' making.
"Helen the fair went over the water
With Paris your friend, one of your own gang,
Whom we never trusted, but you feasted
For years with fawning, let your hands go hang.
We warned you. You could have stopped it....
But now we have sent our sons from the cornfields.
War, like a grocer, weighs and sends us back
Ashes for men, and all our year goes black.
"Yes. They died well, but not to suit your purpose;
Not so that you could go hunting with two horses,
While their sons touched their caps, opening gates for pennies.
Perhaps we shall take a hand, write our own ending."
One growls this beneath his breath.
Soft, but the Titan heard it waking.
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1F:推 flying49:谢谢!!(欢天喜地)不用跑个老远去借了 140.127.59.75 01/06