名人教你讲英文：英诗赏析：They Flee From Me（2）

名人教英文：英诗赏析：they flee from me（2）

上周谈到，十六世纪诗人sir thomas wyatt的they flee from me讲述遭所爱离弃，并以此寄寓仕途失意。

首段他用不再亲近他、纷纷跑开的鹿，比喻女性，到第二段才申明题旨：

thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
twenty times better; but once in special,
in thin array after a pleasant guise,

when her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,

and she me caught in her arms long and small;

therewithal sweetly did me kiss,

and softly said, "dear heart, how like you this?

这段开头用的英语相当浅白和口语化：it hath (have) been otherwise twenty times better，作者忆述过往的美好时光，描绘与爱人的亲密片段。相比第一段借用鹿的意象作隐喻，这段的表达方式十分直接，甚至有点艳情（erotic）。