绝不向黑夜请安
诺兰新片上映。片中老布兰德教授在给男女主人公壮行时，吟了“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”这首诗的首段。这首诗在英语国家中属于“有井水处皆吟”，类似我们的“大江东去——”。友人问我怎样译较好，正巧偷得浮生半日，试译之。译诗为最难之事，远超我之前译小说或音乐剧，在此抛砖引玉，望方家斧正。本诗格律工整，乃以工整格律译出。
《绝不向黑夜请安》X
《绝不向黑夜请安》
狄兰.托马斯
译文：高晓松
绝不向黑夜请安
老朽请于白日尽头涅槃
咆哮于光之消散
先哲虽败于幽暗
诗歌终不能将苍穹点燃
绝不向黑夜请安
贤者舞蹈于碧湾
为惊涛淹没的善行哭喊
咆哮于光之消散
狂者如夸父逐日
高歌中顿觉迟来的伤感
绝不向黑夜请安
逝者于临终迷幻
盲瞳怒放出流星的灿烂
咆哮于光之消散
那么您，我垂垂将死的父亲
请掬最后一捧热泪降临
请诅咒，请保佑
我祈愿，绝不向
黑夜请安，咆哮
于光之消散
附原文：
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at the close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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