沃尔特 惠特曼作品分析

1、walt whitman（18191892）,0808,达尔文,惠特曼,vs,whitman is radically innovative（创新的） in terms of the form of his poetry. what he prefers is “free verse”, that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. a looser and more open-ended syntactical structure（句法） is frequently favored. lines and senten

2、ces of different lengths are left lying side by side as things, undisturbed and separated. there are few compound sentences to draw objects and experiences into a system of hierarchy层次.,free verse,leaves of grass,through out whitmans life, leaves of grass went through 9 editions: 1855, 1856, 1860, 1

3、867, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1889, 1891-92. the first edition of leaves of grass contained 12 poems, not sell well but it made a stir on the american literary scene. because it broke with the poetic convention and expressed the pleasures of sex and the sensuality of the body”. “邪恶的种子” “野蛮的诗歌”,walt whitman

4、,song of myself,i celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what i assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. 我赞美我自己,歌唱我自己, 我承担的你也将承担, 因为属于我的每一个原子也同样属于你。,failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, i stop somewhere waiting for

5、you. 如果你一时找不到我,请不要灰心丧气, 一处找不到再到别处去找, 我总在某个地方等候着你。,i loafe and invite my soul, i lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.,我闲步,还邀请了我的灵魂,我俯身悠然观察着一片夏日的草叶。,a child said what is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; how could i answer the child? i do not know what it is any mor

6、e than he. 一个孩子说：草是什么?两手满满捧着它递给我看;我哪能回答孩子呢? 我和他一样,并不知道。,i guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. 我性格的旗帜, 是用希望织成的绿色物质 and it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, growing among black folks as among white 在宽广或狭窄的地带都能长出新叶, 在黑人中间和白人中间一样能够生长 this

7、is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is, this the common air that bathes the globe. 生长于一切有土地有水的地方， 沐浴着全球的共同空气,my tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same.我的舌头,我血液里的每个原子,都是在这

8、片土壤、这个空气里形成,我是生在这里的父母生下的,父母的父母也是在这里生下的,他们的父母也一样。i, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begini harbor for good or bad, i permit to speak at every hazard, nature without check with original energy. 我, 现在37岁, 一生下身体就十分健康, 我辽阔博大, 我包罗万象。,shall i postpone my acceptation and realization and scream

9、at my eyes my eyes settle the land my voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,i bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass i love, if you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. 我将我自己遗赠给泥土, 然后再从我所爱的草叶中生长出来, 假使你要再见到我, 就请在你的鞋底下寻找吧。,clea

10、r and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.,我的灵魂是清澈而香甜的, 不属于我灵魂的一切也是清澈而香甜的。 缺一即缺二, 看不见的由看得见的证实, 看得见成为看不见时, 也会照样得到证实。,how you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me, and parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, and reached till you f