弹蓝色吉他的人-2

The Man with the Blue Guitar

Wallace Stevens

II.

I cannot bring a world quite round,

我无法使世界圆满，

Although I patch it as I can.

纵然我尽力将它缀补。

I sing a hero’s head, large eye

我吟唱青铜的英雄头像，

And bearded bronze, but not a man,

大眼长髯，却并非真人，

Although I patch him as I can

纵然我尽力将他缀补，

And reach through him almost to man.

借由他，几近人之本真。

If to serenade almost to man

若以小夜曲，献给那近乎于人者，

Is to miss, by that, things as they are,

便恰恰因此错失了事物本然，

Say that it is the serenade

便称这曲，是那

Of a man that plays a blue guitar.

弹蓝色吉他的人所奏的小夜曲