The Greeting Unspoken : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Greeting Unspoken / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
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| 説明 | A difficult one, this. The full video is at:www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO7Nil6mvZQ&feature=channelThe Greeting UnspokenYr AnnerchWelcome – don’t welcome – envoy,The wife I don’t know. ConveyMy covert greeting. EntreatHer obliquely (I fear some threat): “Come quickly”. I don’t know whoShe is. I’ll meet her – nowhere.As for me, I shall arriveWhenever I cease to rove.Should she ask, “Who’s the suitor?”(No question sour or sweeter)Say, refraining from all talk,“I don’t know.” And should you takeA shut-eyed glance at her face,Eclipsing, ghostlike, her fierceRadiance, then you must bothSay nought, by your unsworn oath!Source material: Poem by Dafydd ap Gwilym, paraphrased by Giles Watson. Although it is among the shortest, it is also one of the most untranslatable of Dafydd’s poems, with its string of oxymorons interrupted by parentheses. The reason for this confusing structure is – again paradoxically - quite clear: Dafydd wishes to meet his beloved, but he is afraid to arrange a time or a venue for fear of reprisals from her husband, and afraid even to ask his messenger to say anything to her at all. |
| 撮影日 | 2010-08-24 12:20:41 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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