莎士比亚的第18首十四行诗的英文赏析

[莎士比亚名言英文]Health because she was beautiful, they were men pursued because she is a woman, men were captured. -- Shakespeare Smart has bee a fanatic ignorance, is the one...+阅读

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

我能否将你比作夏天？

你比夏天更美丽温婉。

狂风将五月的蓓蕾凋残，

夏日的勾留何其短暂。

休恋那丽日当空，

转眼会云雾迷蒙。

休叹那百花飘零，

催折于无常的天命。

唯有你永恒的夏日常新，

你的美貌亦毫发无损。

死神也无缘将你幽禁，

你在我永恒的诗中长存。

只要世间尚有人吟诵我的诗篇，

这诗就将不朽，永葆你的芳颜。

正如同一个人可以有不止一张照片或者画像那样，一首诗歌也可以有不止一个翻译。这照片、画像、翻译自然不会完全相同，会有优劣好坏的差别。但是，由于欣赏者的口味不一，在不同的欣赏者眼里，不同的作品会有不同的得分。

这首诗的艺术特点首先是在于它有着双重主题：一是赞美诗人爱友的美貌，二是歌颂了诗歌艺术的不朽力量。其次就是诗人在诗中运用了新颖的比喻，但又自然而生动。