Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvia Plath. The poems in "Birthday Letters" are addressed (with just two except...
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvia Plath. The poems in "Birthday Letters" are addressed (with just two exceptions) to Plath, and were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Some are love letters, others haunted recollections and ruminations. In them, Hughes recalls his and Plath's time together, drawing on the powerful imagery of his work--animal, vegetable, mythological--as well as on Plath's famous verse. Countless books have discussed the subject of this intense relationship from a necessary distance, but this volume--at last--offers us Hughes's own account. Moreover, it is a truly remarkable collection of pems in its own right.
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Sam
It was all of a piece to you
That your horse, the white calm stallion, Sam,
Decided he'd had enough
And Started home at a gallop. I can live
Your incredulity, your certainty
That this was it. You lost your stirrups. He galloped
Straight down the white line of the Barton Road.
You lost your reins, you lost your seat--
It was grab his neck and adore him
Or free-fall. You slewed under his neck,
An upside-down jockey with nothing
Between you and the cataract of macadam,
That horribly hard, swift river,
But the propeller terrors of his front legs
And the clangour of the iron shoes, so far beneath you.
Luck was already there. Did you have a helmet?
How did you cling on? Baby monkey
Using your arms and legs for clinging steel.
What saved you? Maybe your poems
Saved themse... (查看原文)
The Tender Place
Your temples, where the hair crowded in,
Were the tender place. Once to check
I dropped a file across the electrodes
Of a twelve-volt battery --- it exploded
Like a grenade. Somebody wired you up. 5
Somebody pushed the lever. They crashed
The thunderbolt into your skull.
In their bleached coats, with blenched faces,
They hoverd again
To see how you were, in your straps. 10
Whether your teeth were still whole.
The hand on the calibrated lever
Again feeling nothing
Except feeling nothing to pushed to feel
Some squirm of sensation. Terror 15
Was the cloud of you
Waiting for these lightnings. I saw
An oak limb sheared at a bang.
You your Daddy's leg. How many se... (查看原文)
彻头彻尾的冷，没有一丝激情或柔情，而是非常阴郁、闭塞甚至haunted，很多处显得避重就轻，表现出的才华和人格都跟Sylvia Plath相差太多太多。如果Hughes的风格本来就是冰冷的那也就算了，可是他居然在开篇第一首里面写“It was the only poem you ever wrote/ That I disliked through the eyes of a stranger/ ...彻头彻尾的冷，没有一丝激情或柔情，而是非常阴郁、闭塞甚至haunted，很多处显得避重就轻，表现出的才华和人格都跟Sylvia Plath相差太多太多。如果Hughes的风格本来就是冰冷的那也就算了，可是他居然在开篇第一首里面写“It was the only poem you ever wrote/ That I disliked through the eyes of a stranger/ It seems thin and brittle, the lines cold.”真是好笑，what a hypocrite...但是更让我一阵胆寒的是，他似乎比任何人都懂她，懂她的神性和对神性的需要，懂她终身的恐惧，然而他拯救她的愿望不比任何人多。(展开)
众所周知 lyrical poets have cold hearts. 他对她最真挚的情感也只是她双眸中倒映的自己。即使如此1953年他们初次相遇的launch party曾经显得多么的命中注定！星球在宇宙中移动的轨迹，无论当事人知晓与否，缔结了因缘。哎，但是命中注定的错误。他从来没有真正理解过她。
Incidentally, Ted Hughes was also a Pembroke man...众所周知 lyrical poets have cold hearts. 他对她最真挚的情感也只是她双眸中倒映的自己。即使如此1953年他们初次相遇的launch party曾经显得多么的命中注定！星球在宇宙中移动的轨迹，无论当事人知晓与否，缔结了因缘。哎，但是命中注定的错误。他从来没有真正理解过她。
Incidentally, Ted Hughes was also a Pembroke man.(展开)
彻头彻尾的冷，没有一丝激情或柔情，而是非常阴郁、闭塞甚至haunted，很多处显得避重就轻，表现出的才华和人格都跟Sylvia Plath相差太多太多。如果Hughes的风格本来就是冰冷的那也就算了，可是他居然在开篇第一首里面写“It was the only poem you ever wrote/ That I disliked through the eyes of a stranger/ ...彻头彻尾的冷，没有一丝激情或柔情，而是非常阴郁、闭塞甚至haunted，很多处显得避重就轻，表现出的才华和人格都跟Sylvia Plath相差太多太多。如果Hughes的风格本来就是冰冷的那也就算了，可是他居然在开篇第一首里面写“It was the only poem you ever wrote/ That I disliked through the eyes of a stranger/ It seems thin and brittle, the lines cold.”真是好笑，what a hypocrite...但是更让我一阵胆寒的是，他似乎比任何人都懂她，懂她的神性和对神性的需要，懂她终身的恐惧，然而他拯救她的愿望不比任何人多。(展开)
众所周知 lyrical poets have cold hearts. 他对她最真挚的情感也只是她双眸中倒映的自己。即使如此1953年他们初次相遇的launch party曾经显得多么的命中注定！星球在宇宙中移动的轨迹，无论当事人知晓与否，缔结了因缘。哎，但是命中注定的错误。他从来没有真正理解过她。
Incidentally, Ted Hughes was also a Pembroke man...众所周知 lyrical poets have cold hearts. 他对她最真挚的情感也只是她双眸中倒映的自己。即使如此1953年他们初次相遇的launch party曾经显得多么的命中注定！星球在宇宙中移动的轨迹，无论当事人知晓与否，缔结了因缘。哎，但是命中注定的错误。他从来没有真正理解过她。
Incidentally, Ted Hughes was also a Pembroke man.(展开)
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4 有用 silhouette 2023-03-19 10:41:52 北京
彻头彻尾的冷，没有一丝激情或柔情，而是非常阴郁、闭塞甚至haunted，很多处显得避重就轻，表现出的才华和人格都跟Sylvia Plath相差太多太多。如果Hughes的风格本来就是冰冷的那也就算了，可是他居然在开篇第一首里面写“It was the only poem you ever wrote/ That I disliked through the eyes of a stranger/ ... 彻头彻尾的冷，没有一丝激情或柔情，而是非常阴郁、闭塞甚至haunted，很多处显得避重就轻，表现出的才华和人格都跟Sylvia Plath相差太多太多。如果Hughes的风格本来就是冰冷的那也就算了，可是他居然在开篇第一首里面写“It was the only poem you ever wrote/ That I disliked through the eyes of a stranger/ It seems thin and brittle, the lines cold.”真是好笑，what a hypocrite...但是更让我一阵胆寒的是，他似乎比任何人都懂她，懂她的神性和对神性的需要，懂她终身的恐惧，然而他拯救她的愿望不比任何人多。 (展开)
0 有用 Endless_Summer 2011-10-08 19:30:34
"That's the end of my life. The rest is posthumous."
0 有用 a little mark 2018-11-19 03:10:43
Ted Hughes的才华跟Plath比真的差了一个银河系。3.5
0 有用 迷之女主角X 2019-12-20 23:10:45
众所周知 lyrical poets have cold hearts. 他对她最真挚的情感也只是她双眸中倒映的自己。即使如此1953年他们初次相遇的launch party曾经显得多么的命中注定！星球在宇宙中移动的轨迹，无论当事人知晓与否，缔结了因缘。哎，但是命中注定的错误。他从来没有真正理解过她。 Incidentally, Ted Hughes was also a Pembroke man... 众所周知 lyrical poets have cold hearts. 他对她最真挚的情感也只是她双眸中倒映的自己。即使如此1953年他们初次相遇的launch party曾经显得多么的命中注定！星球在宇宙中移动的轨迹，无论当事人知晓与否，缔结了因缘。哎，但是命中注定的错误。他从来没有真正理解过她。 Incidentally, Ted Hughes was also a Pembroke man. (展开)
0 有用 geographyiii 2023-06-25 10:31:27 重庆
红与黑
0 有用 geographyiii 2023-06-25 10:31:27 重庆
红与黑
4 有用 silhouette 2023-03-19 10:41:52 北京
彻头彻尾的冷，没有一丝激情或柔情，而是非常阴郁、闭塞甚至haunted，很多处显得避重就轻，表现出的才华和人格都跟Sylvia Plath相差太多太多。如果Hughes的风格本来就是冰冷的那也就算了，可是他居然在开篇第一首里面写“It was the only poem you ever wrote/ That I disliked through the eyes of a stranger/ ... 彻头彻尾的冷，没有一丝激情或柔情，而是非常阴郁、闭塞甚至haunted，很多处显得避重就轻，表现出的才华和人格都跟Sylvia Plath相差太多太多。如果Hughes的风格本来就是冰冷的那也就算了，可是他居然在开篇第一首里面写“It was the only poem you ever wrote/ That I disliked through the eyes of a stranger/ It seems thin and brittle, the lines cold.”真是好笑，what a hypocrite...但是更让我一阵胆寒的是，他似乎比任何人都懂她，懂她的神性和对神性的需要，懂她终身的恐惧，然而他拯救她的愿望不比任何人多。 (展开)
0 有用 特粉😳 2021-04-09 23:34:31
毕业论文核心书目，反复翻阅，修改着译文。
0 有用 迷之女主角X 2019-12-20 23:10:45
众所周知 lyrical poets have cold hearts. 他对她最真挚的情感也只是她双眸中倒映的自己。即使如此1953年他们初次相遇的launch party曾经显得多么的命中注定！星球在宇宙中移动的轨迹，无论当事人知晓与否，缔结了因缘。哎，但是命中注定的错误。他从来没有真正理解过她。 Incidentally, Ted Hughes was also a Pembroke man... 众所周知 lyrical poets have cold hearts. 他对她最真挚的情感也只是她双眸中倒映的自己。即使如此1953年他们初次相遇的launch party曾经显得多么的命中注定！星球在宇宙中移动的轨迹，无论当事人知晓与否，缔结了因缘。哎，但是命中注定的错误。他从来没有真正理解过她。 Incidentally, Ted Hughes was also a Pembroke man. (展开)
0 有用 a little mark 2018-11-19 03:10:43
Ted Hughes的才华跟Plath比真的差了一个银河系。3.5