Paradise Lost 英国文学史 paraphrase.doc

6. Paradise Lost: A Selection from Book 1OF Mans First Disobedience, and the FruitOf that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tastBrought Death into the World, and all our woe,1With loss of Eden, till one greater Man2Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, 5 Tell me about mans first sin, when he tasted the forbidden fruit, caused all our sorrow and troubles, and lost the paradise until Jesus came and saved us and regain the happy paradise.Sing Heavnly Muse3,that on the secret topOf Oreb4, or of Sinai, didst inspireThat Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed5,In the Beginning6 how the Heavns and EarthRose out of Chaos7: Or if Sion8 Hill 10 The Muse on the heaven inspired Moses the shepherd and the people of Israel in his teachings about how the universe is created out of chaos in the beginning.Delight thee more, and Siloas Brook that flowdFast by the Oracle of God; I thenceInvoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,1That with no middle flight intends to soarAbove th Aonian Mount2, while it pursues 15 Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime3.Or if Sion Hill makes you happier and the brook of Siola flows fast beside the temple of God, I will summon your help to my brave epic from there. The song would fly high above the Aonian Mount while it describes sth that never be attempted in other poems.And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost preferBefore all Temples th upright heart and pure,Instruct me, for Thou knowst; Thou from the firstWast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like4 satst brooding on the vast Abyss5Muse, you prefer the mind of integrity and purity rather than any temple and chiefly instruct me because you always know everything from the very beginning of this world, just like the doves spreading out powerful wings and brooding on the chaos and made the vast Abyss.And madst it pregnant6: What in me is darkIllumin, what is low raise and support;That to the highth of this great ArgumentI may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justifie the wayes of God to men.You illuminate what is dark in me. You raise and support what is low in me to this high argument. I will confirm/support the gods everlasting will and tell the gods treatment to men is justified.Say first7, for Heavn hides nothing from thy viewNor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what causeMovd our Grand Parents in that happy State,Favourd of Heavn so highly, to fall off 30 From thir Creator, and transgress his WillFor one restraint8, Lords of the World9 besides?Muse, you know everything about Heaven and Hell. So tell me, what was it that made Adam and Eve who are loved deeply by God in Eden, change their minds and betray their God, disobeying his will. They were left aside by God just because they ate the apple and went against the injunction?Who first seducd them to that foul revolt?Who first seduced them to the sinful betrayal to God?Th infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guileStird up with Envy and Revenge, deceivd 35 It was the hellish snake whose deceit was aroused by enemy and revenge.The Mother of Mankind, what time his PrideHad cast him out from Heavn, with all his HostOf Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiringTo set himself in Glory above his Peers,He deceived Eve with all his Rebel Angels when his pride made him expelled from Heaven. The Rebel Angles aided to set the snake in control of other fellow angels.He trusted to have equald the most High, 40 If he opposd; and with ambitious aimAgainst the Throne and Monarchy of GodHe believed he is as powerful as God and he was ambitious to claim war against the rule of God.Raisd impious War in Heavn and Battel proudWith vain attempt. Him the Almighty PowerHe raised the disrespectful war and battle with pride in Heaven but in vain.Hurld headlong flaming from th Ethereal SkieHe was thrown from the high sky with his head down towards the earth and all the body flaming by the god.With hideous ruine and combustion downTo bottomless perdition, there to dwellIn Adamantine1 Chains and penal Fire,Who durst defie th Omnipotent to Arms.He was burning and falling down to infinite damage and frightful ruin. There were unbreakable chains and fire for punishing who dares to defy the God.Nine times the Space2 that measures Day and Night 50 To mortal men, he with his horrid crewLay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery GulfeConfounded3 though immortal: But his doom4To ordinary people, the punishment lasts for nine days and nights. He and his evil followers lay defeated and rolling in the chaos and abyss like fire. Although he was immortal, he was utterly defeated and ruined.Reservd5 him to more wrath; for now the thoughtBoth of lost happiness6 and lasting pain7 55 Torments him; round he throws his baleful8 eyesBut the destined sufferings put him in extreme anger. Satans happy life in heaven now lost forever and the pain in hell which Satan must suffer last forever and tortures him; then he looks around with his evil and suffering eyes.That witnessd huge affliction and dismayMixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:He saw a lot of suffering and dismay and only felt stubborn pride and hatefulness.At once9 as far as Angels kenn10 he viewsThe dismal Situation waste and wilde, 60 A Dungeon horrible, on all sides roundAs one great Furnace flamd, yet from those flamesRight at that moment as far as he could see like angels, the miserable wild and wasteful situation and horrible dungeon are surrounded by burning furnace. No light, but rather darkness visibleServd onely to discover sights of woe,Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 65 And rest can never dwell, hope never comesThat comes to all11; but torture without endBut theres no light from those frames, so he can only see darkness which only served to make you discover how sorrowful/ pitiful you are and that the hell consists of sorrow and gloomy shadows where peace never lives in this place. The darkness makes you discover that hope that comes to all never comes to the fallen angels.Still urges12, and a fiery Deluge, fedWith ever-burning Sulphur unconsumd:13However, endless torture presses on forever and the blood of fire comes provided with Sulphur burning forever. Such place Eternal Justice had prepard14 70 For those rebellious, here thir15 Prison ordaindIn utter darkness, and thir portion setEternal Justice (God) had prepared such place (the Hell) for those rebellious angels. The fallen angels prison is destined in complete darkness.As far removd from God and light of HeavnAs from the Center16 thrice to th utmost Pole.1Their position was set far away from God and the light of Heaven which is two times further than the distance from Earth to Heaven.O how unlike the place from whence they fell! 75 How different the place (the Hell) is from where they fell!There the companions of