2018 推句 21 - 30

Original Script

::: 推句 :::

22.

花落憐不掃요

月明愛無眠이라.

月作雲間鏡이요

風爲竹裡琴이라.

24.

歲去人頭白이요

秋來樹葉黃이라.

雨後山如沐이요

風前草似醉라.

30.

細雨池中看이요

微風木末知라.

花笑聲未聽이요

鳥啼淚難看이라.

Translation

Sentence 22 : (Althea Volpe)

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Flowers fall and you are sadden by it and do not sweep them up

The moon is bright and your love [for it] doesn’t make you sleep

Moon rises among the clouds and makes the sight of a mirror

The wind becomes like zither inside bamboos.

• Discussion Questions:

+ (YO) Line 1: "you are sadden by it and do not sweep them up."
Also in Line 4, it would be "zither inside the bamboo". But I wonder if it is zither inside a bamboo or zither inside bamboos (i.e., bamboo forest)".
+ I changed the translation with the corrections and I personally prefer the version "inside bamboos" because it gives me a sense of zither's sound diffusion.

Sentence 24 : (Fran)

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The years pass and people's heads turn white. Autumn comes and the foliage turns yellow. After the rain the mountains seem bathed. Before the wind the grasses appear drunk.

• Discussion Questions:

+ I just decided to leave the ambiguity of 風前. Poetry is meant to be polysemic.

Sentence 30 : (Kyrie)

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One sees a fine rain in the middle of a pond.

One knows a slight breeze from the tips of trees.

The sounds of laughing flowers are not heard.

The tears of crying birds are difficult to see.

• Discussion Questions: