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| Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: II |
| 作者Author / Ezra Pound 艾滋若．龐德 |
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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| The age demanded an image |
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| Of its accelerated grimace, |
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| Something for the modern stage, |
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| Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; |
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| Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries |
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| Of the inward gaze; |
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| Better mendacities |
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| Than the classics in paraphrase! |
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| The"age demanded"chiefly a mould in plaster, |
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| Made with no loss of time, |
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| A prose kinema, not, assuredly, alabaster |
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| Or the"sculpture"of rhyme. |
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its accelerated grimace：its是指Age.全句是指現代社會變化快速如一張扭曲的臉，故意做小丑狀的臉。[back] |
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Not, at any rate, and Attic grace：Attic grace是指維多利亞式虛偽的高雅作風。[back] |
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obscure reveries：難解的晦澀夢幻或白日夢之類的思想。[back] |
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Better mendacities . . . paraphrase意謂有創造性的即使是謊言也好，總比沒有創造性，只知模擬或改寫古典文學要來得強。[back] |
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no loss of time：立即做好，馬上做好。指大量生產之意。[back] |
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kinema：希臘文，謂「動作片子」──指「電影」。全句是說二十世紀的藝術如電影，是平面的，散文化的，而不是詩的，不是立體化的。[back] |
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