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作者: hywyh 时间: 20-1-2011 11:55
标题: My Country - 洪水当头的诗
我同事推荐给我的诗，This is the poem that the media will refer to during the current flood crisis.
我看了看，能大概理解意思，但是领会诗的意境还差的很远。
所以贴出来给大家分享一下，也共同探讨一下。

My Country
- Dorothea Mackellar

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

作者: lisa2008 时间: 20-1-2011 14:40

Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

love this

作者: yearshappy 时间: 21-1-2011 08:34
这首几乎人人皆知的，尤其年级稍大些的，有过 bush 生活经验的。
我第一次念这首诗是在一个俱乐部里，并不完全理解；
后来看了许多老电影，认识很多人。。。渐渐就理解了被其感染了。从情感上

I love a （sunburnt ）country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of （droughts ） and （flooding rains）.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

这一段是如此准确地描写了这一片土地的地理气候特征，无论好坏beauty, terror，从那个广袤褐色的土地上一步一步走来，无关他处的美丽，无关其他一切，the brown land, this is 'My Country'

作者对这片土地的情感真是忠诚而深厚。

作者: hywyh 时间: 21-1-2011 11:20

原帖由 yearshappy 于 21-1-2011 08:34 发表

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这首几乎人人皆知的，尤其年级稍大些的，有过 bush 生活经验的。
我第一次念这首诗是在一个俱乐部里，并不完全理解；
后来看了许多老电影，认识很多人。。。渐渐就理解了被其感染了。从情感上

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看了ls的帖子，又对这首诗多了解了一分！

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