Creative Writing

Week ThreeWeek Three1.1. Compare two Chinese TranslatiCompare two Chinese Translati

onsons2.2. ParadoxParadox3.3. Homework and discussionHomework and discussion4.4. Emily Dickinson/ time and eterEmily Dickinson/ time and eter

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羅伯特‧弗羅斯特(ROBERT FROST)

未選擇的路The Road Not Taken

http://usinfo.org/chinese_cd/AmReader/BIG5/p535.htm

　

1

黃葉林中出條岔路，無奈一人難於兼顧， 順著一條婉蜒小路，久久佇立極目遠眺，只見小徑拐進灌木。

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

2

接著選擇了另一條， 同樣清楚似乎更好， 引人踩踏鋪滿茂草， 踏在其間難分彼此， 儘管真有兩條道。

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

3

清晨裏躺著兩條路， 一樣葉被無人踏髒， 願將第一條來日補， 但知條條相連遠途， 懷疑日後怎能回返。

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

4

在很久以後某一地， 我將歎息訴說於人， 兩路岔開在樹林裏， 我選的那條足跡稀， 而一切差別由此起。

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

林　潔

黃色的樹林中分出兩條道， 可惜我不能兩條都選。 一人豈能同行兩條道， 我久立而難前。 放眼朝一條道望去， 直到轉角擋住了視野。 再看第二條路，同樣佳美， 也許還有更好的得著， 因它草綠待踏。 儘管那另一條道， 差不多同樣候人踏上。

http://www.oc.org/big5_txt/oc4448.htm

那日清晨兩條路同在眼前 都是落葉未經腳步踏 哦，下一次再試那第一條吧！ 但心裡深知一路通一路，越踏越深， 我疑惑應否回返原地。 我會以嘆息傳告此舉 在許久、許久的未來： 兩條道在樹林中分叉而出，我－－ 我選中了那條少人行走的路， 它因此帶來了全然不同的結局。

Paradox

Either. . . Or. . .Both . . . And . . .

etymology

Latin paradoxum, from Greek paradoxon,

from neuter of paradoxos contrary to expectation,

from para- + dokein to think, seem 1 : a tenet contrary to received opinion

paradox

(logic) a self-contradiction;

"`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false“

Cretan paradox

logical paradox A logical paradox consists of a statement 

which if true is false and if false is true.  Thus consider "I am  lying."  If it is true and I am lying, then I am saying something  false (that is what a lie is) and if it is false and I am saying something  false, then it is true that I am lying.  Such a statement is self-contradictory  It contradicts itself.  Its truth entails its falsity and its falsity  entails its truth

Dilemma?

A statement that appears to contradict itself, for example, suggesting a solution which is actually impossible

A paradoxical phenomenon http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/index.php

self-flowing flask fills itself in this diagram, but perpetual motion machines don't exist.

Emily Dickinson1830–1886.  

Comprising 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst, whose life of the Imagination formed the transcendental bridge to modern American poetry.

Western canon

Dickinson manifests more cognitive originality than any other Western poet since Dante.

Dickinson rethought everything for herself, but she wrote lyrical meditations rather than stage dramas or mythopetic epics.

The Complete Poems

Part One: Life Part Two: Nature Part Three: Love Part Four: Time and Eternity Part Five: The Single Hound

http://www.bartleby.com/113/

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

read by Laura Lee Parrotti

In RealAudio http://wiredforbooks.org/poetry/laura_lee_parrotti.htm

General Impression?

On Emily Dickinson

Your favorite phrases or lines

Why?

Time and eternityEpistemic sphere/ Concepts “religious”/ divine/ dignityPhilosophical contemplationPoetic practice

1 ONE dignity delays for all, One mitred afternoon. None can avoid this purple, None evade this crown.  

Coach it insures, and footmen,         Chamber and state and throng; Bells, also, in the village, As we ride grand along.  

2

What dignified attendants,What service when we pause!        How loyally at partingTheir hundred hats they raise!  How pomp surpassing ermine,When simple you and I Present our meek escutcheon,        And claim the rank to die!

Metaphors/ metonymy

Mitred afternoon This purple This crown Hundred hats Meek escutcheon

On the contrary

One Dignity Delay Crown

Words related to time. . .

Free association list words or

phrases

Make a connection: pairs of

contradictory temporal concepts

Find words from Dickinson’s poems. .

.(p.9-p.11)

miter

1 : a liturgical headdress worn by bishops and abbots2 a : a surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a joint is made by cutting two pieces at an angle and fitting them together b : MITER JOINT

miter

Homework 1. Reading: p.12-p.18

2. writing:

today ___________

yesterday ________

and tomorrow _________/

Oh, __________________