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Elizabeth Bishop,其人其事其情其诗

2019-9-2 20:48| 发布者: LadyKaka | 查看: 5446| 原文链接

其人其事


今天我想介绍一下Elizabeth Bishop的生平和诗。生于1911.2.8-1979.10.6.

1956年获得普利策诗歌奖。

她是父母的独生女儿。父亲是个成功的建筑商,可惜在她八月大时去世。她的母亲从此精神失常,并在她五岁时被关进精神病医院。从此,她和外祖父母生活在一处农场。
然而,她的祖父母获得监护权,她于是乎就搬到了麻省比较富裕的祖父母家里。然而,物质的丰裕并不让她感到快乐,与外祖父母的分离让她感到非常孤独。
在她九岁时,祖父母终于意识到孙女不高兴,然后将她送到她的大姨妈家。祖父母给她大姨妈钱,包括生活费、教育费用。她大姨妈家生活在赤贫区,那里有很多爱尔兰和意大利移民。然而,尽管经济上捉襟见肘,她大姨妈让她接触到了很多诗人的诗。

Eliza从小体弱多病,正规受教育非常少。

她从青年早期就经济独立,因为从父亲那里继承了财产。这些财产到她去世时都没有用完。她用这些钱,到处旅游。在40岁时,她去了巴西。本来打算只在巴西待2周,却没想到待了15年。因为在这里,她遇到了她的爱人。电影reaching for the moon就讲了这一段美丽而忧伤的爱情故事.

从七十年代,她开始在纽约大学等高校教书。她说:‘我不相信什么写作课程,儿童有时画得很好,写得很棒。不应该鼓励。’("I don’t think I believe in writing courses at all, It’s true, children sometimes write wonderful things, paint wonderful pictures, but I think they should be discouraged.")

1979年因为脑动脉瘤破裂去世。

一首我喜欢的诗:

One Art/ Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;

so many things seem filled with the intent

to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:

places, and names, and where it was you meant

to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or

next-to-last, of three loved houses went.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,

some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

–Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture

I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident

the art of losing’s not too hard to master

though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

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