[練習]Alone

Alone是艾侖波的詩，我對他其實沒有非常瞭解，但印象中他的作品多半都有點陰暗、孤獨。Alone被一個挪威樂團Arcturus拿來編曲，因為這首歌我才認識艾侖波；這是一個英文練習，這首詩滿吸引我的，因此拿他來練習自己的英文翻譯能力。一年前翻的，現在看來好像還是有可以改進的地方......。

《12/19, 2007 Posted @ 無名, 12/6, 2012 修改》

[ALONE from Edgar Allan Poe ]

From childhood's hour I have not been

As others were---I have not seen

As others saw---I could not bring

My passions from a common spring.

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all I lov'd, I loved alone.

Then---in my childhood---in the dawn

Of a most stormy life---was drawn

From ev'ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still:

From the torrent, or the fountain,

From the red cliff of the mountain,

From the sun that 'round me roll'd

In its autumn tint of gold---

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass'd me flying by---

From the thunder and the storm,

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view.

童年時期我就和別人處在不同的狀態

我不曾看過他們看過的

而我的熱情也和他們不同

我離不開哀傷

就算心是快樂的也一樣

我也離不開鍾愛的孤獨

接著我童年人生裡最狂暴的暴風雨隱然來到

那謎樣的怪病依舊綁著我，折磨著

像湧泉般的奔流

或山邊鮮紅的峭壁

像圍繞我滾動的太陽

在它的金黃染上淡淡的秋意...

像從天而降的閃電

飛過我身旁

風暴與雷鳴之間

那雲的樣子

(當天堂的寧靜是憂鬱的)

在我看來祂是惡魔...。