中英翻译实践与研究的策略与方法分析
2009-09-03卢茜
卢 茜
摘要:从文学角度,对美国诗人罗伯特·弗洛斯特的《未选择的路》一诗作其中文译本鉴赏。希望通过对意象的转存和形式,音韵节奏的传译两方面的比读与分析,印证与发掘可供中英诗歌翻译实践与研究借鉴的策略与方法。
关键词:英诗翻译;意象;形式
中国分类号:I106.2
文献标识码:A
文章编号:1675-3198(2009)08-0213-02
罗伯特·弗洛斯特(Robert Frost,1874—1963),堪称美国20世纪最受欢迎的诗人之一,有美国非官方的“桂冠诗人”之称,先后4次获“普利策文学奖”,被誉为美国的“民族诗人”。他的诗歌内容主要以美国新英格兰农村为背景,描写淳美的自然景色和朴实的田园生活。这难免使人联想到大家熟知的“山水派田园诗”,甚至将他并入“田园诗人”的行列。实际上,弗氏诗歌的特点是言近及远,是在简单中见深度,是将许多深邃的哲学意涵蕴藏在田园抒情诗歌的特殊风貌之下,通过运用眼前看似平淡无奇的事物去表达寓意深刻的哲理。用具体的事物说出抽象的概念。故其诗歌感染力强,不仅能引起大众读者的普遍共鸣,更起到了广泛引导和教化的作用。收录在其诗集《山间》(Mountain In-terval)中的一首小诗《未选择的路》(The Road Not Taken)承袭了诗人一贯的风格,清新自然,朴实无华,虽暗藏淡淡遗憾和忧郁,但总体上仍寄寓了一种美好而积极的憧憬与希望。原诗全文如下。
The Road Not Taken/Two roads diverged in a yellowwood/And sorry I could not travel both/And be one travel-er,long I stood/And looked down one as far as I could/Towhere it bent in the undergrowth/Then took the other, asjust as fair/And having perhaps the better claim/Because itwas grassy and wanted wear/Though as for that,the passingthere/Had worn them really about the same,/And boththat morning equally lay In leaves no step had troddenblack/Oh,I kept the first for another day/Yet knowing howway leads on to way/I doubted if I should ever come back/Ishall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ageshence/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the oneless traveled by/And that has made all the difference.
该诗着笔林间择路往事。诗歌前三节写实景,即“我”伫立在路口面临着两条路,考虑再三,决定选择了人迹罕至的那条。第四节是“我”多年以后回想起该次抉择时姐良多感慨。……
