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喜歡我們的朋友除了Comment, Like, Share 同 Subscribe, 還可以支持我們的Facebook專頁https://www.facebook.com/Samsan.edu 葉慈(William Butler Yeats)是二十世紀其中一位最偉大的現代主義詩人。他於1923年獲得諾貝爾文學獎，但他最著名的作品卻是在之後才寫成。 他早期的詩歌從愛爾蘭神話中汲取靈感，充滿浪漫氣息。香港人較為熟悉的村上春樹在«海邊的卡夫卡»中就引用過他的詩句In Dreams Begin Responsibilities(責任由夢想開始)。後期詩歌少了華美的詞藻，以神秘主義的象徵探討現代社會。 本集介紹的The Second Coming(基督再臨)是他較後期的作品。他的詩用字簡單，適合英文學習者和對英國文學感興趣的人。 The Second Coming BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIK6narajM