美国文学诗歌名篇翻译赏析

I shot an arrow... I'm Nobody! The Road not Taken Dreams

I shot an arrow……

我射出一支箭……

---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air,

我把一支箭射向空中

It fell to earth I knew not where;

不知它落在何方

For so swiftly it flew the sight

飞得那么快

Could not follow it in its fight.

眼睛难以追寻它的方向

I breathed a song into the air,

我对着天空轻轻唱歌

It fell to earth I knew not where;

不知它消逝在何方

For who has the sight so keen and strong

谁的眼光能如此敏锐犀利

That can follow the flight of a song.

能跟上歌声的翅膀

Long, long afterwards in an oak,

很久很久以后，在一棵橡树上

I found the arrow still unbroke;

我找到了那支箭，仍未折断

And the song, from beginning to end,

也发现了那支歌，自始自终

I found again in the heart of a friend.

在朋友的心中欢唱

This poem is written in a traditional iambic form with the feet “aabb aacc ddee”. In the poem, Longfellow sings the friendship implicitly and skillfully. The arrow and the song in this poem stand for the friendship. When he shot an arrow and breathed a song into the air, he did not expect to find them any more. But many years later, he came across with the arrow and found that his song was always in the heart of his friend. This suggests that the friendship is everlasting.

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