《沉睡锁闭我的心灵》——诗歌的形式主义解读和翻译之三

"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"——A Formalistic Interpretation and Translation of Poems(3)

华兹华斯的短诗《沉睡锁闭我的心灵》,在貌似朴素,宛若璞玉的外表之下,包含的是结构的天衣无缝和诗人独具匠心的音律安排,诗歌含义隽永,余音袅袅不绝,令人回味。本文采用后结构主义关于文本具有多意义性以及阅读即误读的立场,以欣赏和接纳的而非批评或拒斥的态度对待不同的解读,展示文本的欢欣与嬉戏。但是翻译毕竟是翻译,无论现代理论怎样抹杀原文和译文之间的区分,这两个关系却始终存在。而形式主义的翻译则是要尽可能地在形式上也接近原文,以尽可能多地保留译本作为意义潜在体与原作的接近性。文中的翻译也做了这方面的尝试。另外,本文还包含一个对该诗的语音方面的分析以比较译本和原文的得失。

Wordsworth＇s poem ＂A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal＂, owing to its seemingly plain but masterfully elaborated language and profound meaning, has been commented by both scholars and critics. Adopting the poststructuralist stance, i.e. a text may have many interpretations and reading is misreading, this essay displays different interpretations and demonstrates how these differences affect translational decisions to be made. The so-called formalistic translation demands TLT keep as close as possible to the original form in the hope of retaining in the TLT a similar potential that may allow as many possible interpretations as the SLT may do. The writer of this essay made his efforts in the application of such principles in his translations included in this essay. The essay also includes a formalistic analysis of phonemic and rhythmic aspect of the poem to evidence what may get lost in the Chinese version of the poem.