Text Study:Background Information 3.Enjoy the poem from Elizabeth Browning One day in 1847,Mrs.Browning slipped into her husband's pocket some manuscript of poems,asking him to tear it up if he did not like it.It was a collection of love poems composed by her during the period of courtship(求婚). After reading the poems,Browning declared,"I dare not reserve to myself the finest sonnets written in any language since Shakespeare
Text Study: Background Information 3. Enjoy the poem from Elizabeth Browning One day in 1847, Mrs. Browning slipped into her husband’s pocket some manuscript of poems, asking him to tear it up if he did not like it. It was a collection of love poems composed by her during the period of courtship(求婚). After reading the poems, Browning declared, “I dare not reserve to myself the finest sonnets written in any language since Shakespeare
Text Study:Background Information Then they were published under the title of “Sonnets(什四行诗)from the Portuguese”.They were beautiful lyrics,expressing with genuineness of a woman's love
Then they were published under the title of “Sonnets(十四行诗) from the Portuguese”. They were beautiful lyrics, expressing with genuineness of a woman’s love. Text Study: Background Information
Text Study:Background Information Sonnets from the Portuguese How do I love thee?Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach,when feeling out of sight ■For the ends of Being(存在)and ideal Grace(恩宠) I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need,by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely,as men strive for Right; I love thee purely,as they turn from Praise;
■ How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ■ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height ■ My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight ■ For the ends of Being(存在) and ideal Grace(恩宠). ■ I love thee to the level of everyday’s ■ Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. ■ I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; ■ I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise; Sonnets from the Portuguese Text Study: Background Information
Text Study:Background Information I love thee with the passion put to use In my old grief,and with my childhood faith; I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,---I love thee with the breath, Smiles,tears,of all my life!---and,if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. -from Elizabeth
■ I love thee with the passion put to use ■ In my old grief, and with my childhood faith; ■ I love thee with a love I seemed to lose ■ With my lost saints,--- I love thee with the breath, ■ Smiles, tears, of all my life!--- and, if God choose, ■ I shall but love thee better after death. —from Elizabeth Text Study: Background Information
译文 我是怎样地爱你？诉不尽万语干言 ■我爱你的程度是那样地高深和广远 ■合似我的灵魂飞到了九天与黄泉， 去探索人生的奥秘和神灵的恩典 ■无论是白昼还是夜晚，我爱你不息 ◆ 像我每日必需的维生食物不能间断。 DC.NE江
译文 ■我是怎样地爱你？诉不尽万语千言： ■我爱你的程度是那样地高深和广远， ■恰似我的灵魂飞到了九天与黄泉， ■去探索人生的奥秘和神灵的恩典。 ■无论是白昼还是夜晚，我爱你不息， ■像我每日必需的维生食物不能间断