作者paganpoetry (群青日和)
看板poetry
標題[請益] Robert Hayden的The Whipping
時間Fri Oct 3 11:55:49 2008
The Whipping
The old woman across the way
is whipping the boy again
and shouting to the neighborhood
her goodness and his wrongs.
Wildly he crashes through elephant ears,
pleads in dusty zinnias,
while she in spite of crippling fat
pursues and corners him.
She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling
boy till the stick breaks
in her hand. His tears are rainy weather
to woundlike memories:
My head gripped in bony vise
of knees, the writhing struggle
to wrench free, the blows, the fear
worse than blows that hateful
Words could bring, the face that I
no longer knew or loved . . .
Well, it is over now, it is over,
and the boy sobs in his room,
And the woman leans muttering against
a tree, exhausted, purged--
avenged in part for lifelong hidings
she has had to bear.
stanza four 的to wrench free 不太懂意思 只知道wrench可能是扳手的意思
有高手可以解答嗎?
謝謝
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1F：推 julians:to wrench free應該是要把他轉/扭開 140.112.63.85 10/03 15:35
2F：→ paganpoetry:to wrench free his writhing body? 61.231.194.180 10/03 15:50
3F：推 julians:to wrench him-/herself from sth 219.68.73.40 10/04 00:22
4F：→ julians:confining him-/herself 219.68.73.40 10/04 00:22
5F：→ paganpoetry:thank u so much 125.225.32.174 10/04 09:22
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