2025年10月4日星期六

midden, susurrations of Trees. husky whispering wave. shadowy cedars and ghostly pines

Section 14

Lines	Word or phrase	Annotation
109	the close of the day	傍晚。
110	the large unconscious scenery	廣大而無意識的自然之景。此處的「無意識」指自然之景對生死問題沒有感覺，同時也感覺不到林肯的死亡。
111	the heavenly aerial beauty the pertur'd winds and the storms	絕妙的空靈之美。 (perturbed：煩擾；焦慮)煩躁的狂風暴雨。
112	the arching heavens	穹蒼。
115	the infinite separate houses minutia of daily usages	分布在原野上無數之獨立家屋。 (minutia：瑣事)日常生活中的瑣事。
116	the streets how their throbbings throbbed the cities pent lo, then there	描寫城裡的街道喧囂如同脈搏的跳躍而顫動著。 (pent：被關閉的)意指城市中人們生活的鬱悶。看呀！當時當地。這句話似可視為此節之一轉捩點。從108行到116行，描述的是美國景色及人民生活的概略。也即是人之「生」。從107行到162行所談的都是有關「死」的問題。
118	Appear'd the cloud appear'd the long black trail	烏雲出現。烏雲的降臨使人連想到黑夜與死亡。出現了一條長又黑的小徑。此處使人意味到通往死亡的途徑。因為詩中人接著就談到死亡。
119	its thought the sacred knowledge of death	即the thought of death。死的念頭。意指詩中人由於林肯之死，想到自身之死。兩者都是令人痛苦悲哀的。對「死」此一觀念的認識。這裡用「神聖」一字，顯然是詩中人由林肯之死，而體會到死之真諦。
122	companions	同伴。the thought of death和the knowledge of death被人格化而成為惠特曼的同伴。
125	shadowy cedars and ghostly pines	可怕的西洋杉及鬼影幢幢的松樹。(從123行到125行給讀者的，均是一種極為恐怖的感覺。)
126	the singer so shy to the rest receiv'd me	畫眉對其他事物均顯得躊躇不安，但是接受了我為其知音，一吐其心聲為快。
127	comrade three	三人夥伴。指the thought of death, the knowledge of death 即詩中人而言。
128	the carol of death	死亡的頌歌。 [back]
132	rapt me	使我歡喜若狂。
133	tallied	吻合一致。
135	lovely and soothing death	可愛而又具有安慰作用的死亡。
136	undulate round the world serenely arriving, arriving	「死」如海浪般的環繞著世界。平靜地來臨。這裡用兩個arriving來增強效果。
138	delicate death fathomless universe	微妙之死；美而神祕之死。高深莫測的宇宙。
143	Dark mother	指死亡。
147	Approach strong deliveress	和Dark mother一樣指「死」。此句為招喚語，即Strong deliveress, approach. (deliveress：解除痛苦的人。)
148	them	human beings.
150	Laved . . . thy bliss	沐浴在你幸福裡，此行與前行意思相近。
151	serenades	柔和的歌唱；小夜曲。
152	I propose . . . for thee	我建議向你致敬(saluting thee)。
153	fitting	指open landscape和high-spread sky是相連的，猶如水連天。天連水那種感覺。
156	husky whispering wave	低聲細語的海浪聲。
157	well-veil'd death	緊罩著的死亡。
158	gratefully nestlingclose to thee	舒適地依偎在你的身邊。(指身體接受死亡之情景。)
160	myriad	無數的田野。
161	dense-pack'd cities teeming wharves

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Though that hooly writ speke of horrible synne, certes hooly writ may nat been defouled, namoore than the sonne that shyneth on the mixne [midden].
[c 1390 Chaucer Parson's Tale l. 911]

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🌳 Thomas Hardy wrote that people could identify a tree by its susurration, the sound of leaves in the wind.

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BBC Sounds: The Susurrations of Trees

midden は何か: a heap (= large pile) of animal waste, or waste material thrown away by human beings in the past: .

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A midden is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, sherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation.

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