Wandering
through John Keats' Poetic Garden,
August
2013 (2)
思緒還是被媒體拉著走，情緒還是跟著天氣變化。若不是一筆一劃誠實寫下，還自以為是淡定一角色，錯，錯，錯，真慌了，轉入秋天，脾氣也變調了。來到濟慈的詩篇，
老，是添加的色彩，即或綠意盎然的年輕，抹上老氣，就會顯出秋氣。
Part One
Season of mists and
mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
wiki 的介紹還精采的: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Autumn，我的閱讀則回到我處的此時此地，夏末秋初，頌「天地玄黃、宇宙洪荒、日月盈昃、辰宿列張、寒來暑往、秋收冬藏」。濟慈開場就頌讚秋天豐碩的各種果實: 葡萄，蘋果，蘆(gourd)，榛果 (hazel)，空氣，陽光，水 ，特別是夏天充足的陽光，烤熟了果子。果實，圓嘟嘟，是何等祝福----to load and bless with fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eves run----攀爬茅屋簷下的葡萄藤，豐收，福氣喔! 屋簷是eaves，非eves，也許濟慈筆誤(wiki的版本就改成eaves)，也許另有指涉，同音字，莫非也偷偷告訴我們，收成之後，也是黃昏時刻，尾聲進了，所以幸福也是種負擔(load)，這負擔還讓蘋果樹開始彎腰----to
bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, and fill all fruit with ripeness to
the core-----長滿苔蘚的小農舍，綠建築耶! 蘋果熟了，熟到心，當然也是徹徹底底(to the core)的意思。
豐裕，葫蘆脹飽飽(to swell the gourd)，榛果圓鼓鼓(plump the hazel shells)，大自然生態是巧妙的，陽光照耀，植物生長開花，蜜蜂嚐盡花的甜頭，也因此結出好的果實，最近一期Time探討沒有蜜蜂的世界，其實對整個生態影響很嚴重喔: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20130819,00.html。但是濟慈結語----Until they think warm days will never cease/ For summer
has over-brimmed clammy cells----快樂的小蜜蜂，還以為溫暖的夏天永不止息，有吃不完的甜頭，因為夏的過火(over-brimmed)，拜陽光所賜，那一季滿是甜甜濃濃的(clammy)蜂窩。
一如蜜蜂，我快樂一夏，2013夏,
四樂。翻閱幾本書，古今中外，東看西看，一樂。隨興寫寫，拼拼湊湊，二樂。幾番小旅，出門走走，四處晃晃，三樂。拜數位相機所賜，美景記在記憶卡，還可以挑三揀四，端幾張像樣的放在FB曬曬，四樂。
秋，收，結果。自然結果，真好。但總是太多的期待，焦慮盼望著美麗的成果，苦等，煎熬，日子也白白等完了。卻顧所來徑，怎不珍惜當下正在走的路？立秋，不等果實，在白千層小徑中欣賞彎彎曲曲之美：這變化萬千的過程，總有不變緩慢腳步護著，幾分滑稽，但自成一格。觀與察，會心一笑，知了，「過程比結果重要」。日日耕耘，天天練習。學，一生的道路；習，每天的腳步。
Part Two
Who hath not seen
thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:「
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:「
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
該怎麼形容秋天呢?濟慈用的是擬人化手法(personification) (參考: http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/glossary/g/personification.htm)
，秋，有穀倉，坐在曬穀場，長髮飄逸，打瞌睡，有鐮刀，像一位拾穗者，旁觀蘋果汁滴下....，秋天是美麗動人的小姐? 是偷懶的美少女?是殺手?
詩人把私藏的一套理論(theory)，搬上農村秋收過程的戲台(theatre)，theory與theater相同的字元: thea，觀看。只是理論是一人對事物的觀點與看法，戲台呈現戲劇，演員(1)演戲(2)給觀眾(3)看，不折不扣三角關係。此外，theory也源自theo-，神，創作者一如神祉，居高臨下，偷窺一場好戲演出，是偷窺喔! 當理論搬到戲台的空間，當想法畫成詩句，作者也只能退居一旁，雖然擁有至高的權力與視角觀看。
秋，登台，演出，空間是移動的從穀倉(store)、田野(abroad)、打麥場(a
granary floor).... ，動作與表情豐富。隨意坐在(sitting careless)打麥場上，長髮隨風飄逸(hair oft-lifted by the winnowing wind)不是隨便坐著，而是，坐著，閒閒，無關緊要，一派輕鬆，漫不經心，彷彿眾人皆忙，為她獨閒。秋收，之後麥穀還得經過"winnow"，吹開糠皮，去蕪存菁。但是，為何農忙之際，獨獨她，隨興穿越農村每個角落，仍然閒閒沒事?
抓到了，才收割一半的田畝之間，秋，打瞌睡，盼隨著罌粟花香四溢(with the fume of poppies)，fume是花香？是怒氣？是煙霧？還是毒氣？罌粟花自荷馬史詩就名氣響亮，海倫拿出一瓶罌粟花神溶液，超神奇的忘憂藥，而浪漫時期詩人抽鴉片是常見現象，可參考專文
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1750278/pdf/bullnyacadmed00244-0110.pdf。美麗的花，甜蜜的花果，無價之寶，但人類過度濫用卻造成後來的眾多苦難。看似讚美秋天慵懶姿態，其實，秋帶著大鐮刀，只是暫時還沒砍下去----while thy hook spares the next swath
and all its twined flowers----原來，秋，死神化身，另一代名詞是拾穗者（gleaner)，背著重重的擔，跨過小溪，近了，來臨。
等，觀看，耐心地等果汁一滴一滴榨乾----or by a cyder-press, with
patient look,/ Tour watchest the last oozings hours by hours----直到最後一口，最後一滴，時間流逝，時時刻刻。寧靜快樂慶豐收，暗藏肅殺之氣。看似冷眼旁觀的長髮秋天，是豐收的終結者，一年豐收的成果，終究納入她的穀倉。成功之際，別得意忘形，下一刻的事誰也說不準；繁華榮景也是過眼雲煙，此時慶豐收，一下子，穀倉所藏的也將被取走。得失、成敗、強弱、榮辱，是相對，而不是絕對，是一時的狀態，而不是永久的特質。
Part Three
Where are the songs
of spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, -
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, -
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
立秋開始讀這首詩，卻因為生病耽擱，遲遲未寫完這篇週記。腸胃不適，禁食多日，手沒力氣提筆，只能打字，多虧科技與電腦相助。不過，腦袋的空洞，電腦一點也幫不上忙。轉入第三段，試問春之歌如今安在? (where are the song of spring?)春天的曲調固然迷人，但秋天也有自己的歌----thou hast thy music, too----人生也是如此，每個人自有自己生命獨特曲風。
秋之歌？濟慈先畫一幅音樂圖，說明音樂的調調----While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,/
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue----詩中有畫，畫中有音樂。查良錚的翻譯捕捉到色彩，但缺少音樂感：「當波狀的雲彩把將逝的一天映照，已脂紅抹上殘梗散碎的田野」，夕陽之景奪目而出，但仍有一些字詞是無法翻譯。soft-dying day，是將逝的一天，但dying另一層意義是染色，soft-dying，淡淡色澤，此外也表達漸弱的音樂。天空的雲，如被柵欄區隔(barred)，波狀? 還是因為陽光沒那麼強烈，也許是從樹叢或是農莊看過去的角度，雲，就像點著一堆音符，輕輕舞動。雲，活了(bloom)原本脆弱的日子(soft-dying day)，又喚醒(touch)殘碎的大地，因為這樂章，增添幾許樂觀色調(rosy hue)。
秋之歌，大合唱，分中音部，由蚊蚋(gnats)組成；男低音，山羊(lambs)主唱；男高音，蟋蟀(crickets)領唱；女高音，紅胸知更鳥(red-breast)唱。殘存的一點樂觀，在這合唱曲中全然消失，一整批蚊蚋為大合唱定調，喃喃悲鳴(mourn)，滴滴啜泣，高高低低，起起伏伏，是不折不扣的小調。而成熟的羔羊，待宰，最後奮力一唱，低沉卻大聲(loud)，悲壯雄渾。蟋蟀高音應和，更顯淒涼。最後，知更鳥三倍柔和(treble soft)鳴囀，聲，聲，聲，慢，高亢，縷縷高八度音符，慢慢入雲端。天邊一看，一群燕子，嘰嘰喳喳----And gathering swallows twitter in the sky----集聚一起，議論紛紛，你猜，它們到底說些甚麼? "Twitter"這字就是這樣來的。
秋，慵懶之餘，肅殺之氣，最後一點紅光，哀歌，曲終，燕子來了!
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