能不能让我来把你比拟做夏日?
你可是更加温和,更加可爱:
狂风会吹落五月里开的好花儿,
夏季的生命又未免结束得太快:
有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热,
他那金彩的脸色也会被遮暗;
每一样美呀,总会离开美而凋落,
被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残;
但是你永久的夏天决不会凋枯,
你永远不会失去你美的仪态;
死神夸不着你在他的影子里踯躅,
你将在不朽的诗中与时间同在;
只要人类在呼吸,眼睛看得见,
我这诗就活着,使你的生命绵延。
我想将你比作迷人的夏日
我想将你比作迷人的夏日,
但汝却更显可爱和温存:
狂野之风摧残着五月蓓蕾的柔媚,
也一天天消逝着夏日的归期:
苍天的明眸偶然泻出璀璨,
却难以辉映他暗淡的容颜;
一切明媚的色彩渐已消褪,
过程是如此苍白;
然而你却如永恒之夏,
所有的美好永远也不会改变;
就连死神也不敢对你嚣张,
因你将永生于不朽的诗篇:
只要世人一息尚存,
你将和这诗篇永驻人间。
十四行诗(第十八首)--莎士比亚(英)
能不能让我来把你比拟做夏日?
你可是更加温和,更加可爱:
狂风会吹落五月里开的好花儿,
夏季的生命又未免结束得太快:
有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热,
他那金彩的脸色也会被遮暗;
每一样美呀,总会离开美而凋落,
被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残;
但是你永久的夏天决不会凋枯,
你永远不会失去你美的仪态;
死神夸不着你在他的影子里踯躅,
你将在不朽的诗中与时间同在;
只要人类在呼吸,眼睛看得见,
我这诗就活着,使你的生命绵延。
The poem starts with a flattering question to the beloved—"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" The beloved is both "more lovely and more temperate" than a summer's day. The speaker lists some negative things about summer: it is short—"summer's lease hath all too short a date"—and sometimes the sun is too hot—"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines." However, the beloved has beauty that will last forever, unlike the fleeting beauty of a summer's day. By putting his love's beauty into the form of poetry, the poet is preserving it forever. "So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." The lover's beauty will live on, through the poem which will last as long as it can be read.