When the bombs went off in London last year, I thought about Yeats and what he might have thought or written about this.
去年伦敦爆炸案发生时,我想到了叶芝,我想象他会想些什么,他会为此写些什么。
That said though it「s dangerous to limit any artist to a particular period. You might think of Yeats in terms of the Easter rebellion in Ireland or Wordsworth around the French Revolution right?
然而谈论任何艺术家都不应局限在某一时代,这是危险的,你可能会想到爱尔兰复活节起义时期的叶芝,或者法国大革命时期的华兹华斯,对吧?
The occult gives Yeats aesthetic forms for understanding individual psychology and historical event.
神秘主义使叶芝从美学角度,理解个人的心理,和历史事件。
In Section III below, Yeats says, 「Get all the gold and silver that you can」 — 「provide, provide!」
在第三节里,叶芝说,获得你能获得的黄金和白银-,请拿出来,请拿出来!
But Yeats doesn」t answer the question, does he? Well, why not?
但叶芝没有回答这个问题,为什么他不回答呢?
Yeats seems to be reversing this trick in 「the Fisherman,」 seems to be converting myth back into reality the ideal object of desire from a glimmering girl back into a trout.
叶芝好像在渔夫一诗里,颠倒了这一转变「,好象是把神话转回现实,欲望的理想载体从,若隐若现的姑娘变成了鳟鱼。」
The realization of desire for this young Yeats is something only possible in art.
对年轻的叶芝来说这种愿望的,实现只有在艺术里才可能。
Well, that「s enough for today, and we will continue Yeats on Wednesday.
好,今天就到这里,周三我们继续我们的叶芝之旅。
Yeats seems to be insisting through Jane on the necessity of shattering experience to achieve unity of being, which Yeats imagines, again, as the union of opposites.
叶芝似乎通过珍妮坚持,认为经过破碎达到存在的统一,的必要性,所谓的统一,叶芝想象的还是相对立事物的统一。
There are many other instances of this myth-making imagination that Yeats is always working with.
还有很多这样叶芝用想象力,进行神话创作的的例子。
Yeats is throwing off his early work as if throwing off a kind of costume.
叶芝抛弃了他的早期作品,就像抛弃一件外套一样。
Again it might seem that Yeats is interested in something like this too and, again, in this same moment that Frost is publishing his work in England.
好像叶芝也对此,很感兴趣,再一次,与此同时,弗罗斯特在英国出版了其作品。
And interestingly, strangely, make of it what you will, the man who detonated that bomb, as I understand it, had studied Yeats at school in Leeds.
有趣而奇特的是,你们可以对此有自己的想法,制造爆炸的那个人,我觉得他肯定,在利兹大学学院里学过叶芝。
That this great mind and great memory Let」s see. On your handout I have Yeats on the subject of magic.
这一伟大的思想和记忆,在你们的讲义材料上,我提到了叶芝诗歌中的魔法。
Notice here how Yeats images what is at the core of Christ「s birth.
注意这让叶芝是怎么描写,基督诞生的核心内容的。
This is an important phase of his career, when with the help of Lady Augusta Gregory and John Synge, Yeats tries to establish an Irish national drama.
这是他人生中重要的时段,在奥古·斯塔·格雷戈里夫人,和约翰·辛格的帮助下,叶芝尝试爱尔兰民族戏剧。
Well, Yeats begins in scorn of an audience that」s unable to recognize true wisdom and great art.
叶芝以嘲讽一个不能识别真正的,的智慧和伟大的艺术的观众开始。