英文小詩賞析

　　英語詩歌是英語語言的精華。它以最凝練的文字傳遞時間與空間、物質與精神、理智與情感。詩歌本身包含的豐富社會生活內容和藝術內涵，詩歌語言的獨特的美與和諧都使它們具有無窮的魅力。下面小編為大家帶來，歡迎大家閱讀!

　　：A Prayer on Going into My House

　　God grant a blessing on this tower and cottage

　　And on my heirs， if all remain unspoiled，

　　No table or chair or stool not simple enough

　　For shepherd lads in Galilee; and grant

　　That I myself for portions of the year

　　May handle nothing and set eyes on nothing

　　But what the great and passionate have used

　　Throughout so many varying centuries

　　We take it for the norm; yet should I dream

　　Sinbad the sailor‘s brought a painted chest，

　　Or image， from beyond the Loadstone Mountain，

　　That dream is a norm; and should some limb of the devil

　　Destroy the view by cutting down an ash

　　That shades the road， or setting up a cottage

　　Planned in a government office， shorten his life，

　　Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.

　　：Cement Guitar

　　All morning I've remembered St. Ignacio's bruise，jaundiced seagulls over Quonset， November and the gross white sky. Days so long you walk home fifteen miles from the restaurant.

　　Same waitress every day of your life and she never remembers your allergies.

　　Nothing on the map but scone crumbs and a drop of tea. Just manifold food and a dead request to bury the last of your seven receipts.

　　Mother of foster-wit，father of straw，I can see how silence takes the place of those who cut their thoughts in stone before they need them.

　　Stone is the past，and the past is a form of flattery.

　　Last winter，groups of children sent letters in sadness for the late Christmas suicide.

　　Addressed to those who managed the fishery，who named the docks and decided the colors of unfinished boats，the only way to read them was alive.

　　To think out loud about those children's names was to forget what you meant by dying.