……约翰·多恩：有一大堆，但就算别的都不读也得读《Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed》；菲利普·拉金：他写得不多，去读诗全集吧（实在不行，至少看看《Born yesterday》）；T.S. 艾略特：《J. 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》、《麦琪的旅行》、《空心人》；欧内斯特·海明威：《一个干净明亮的地方》；赫尔曼·梅尔维尔：《抄写员巴特比》；约瑟夫·康拉德：《黑暗的心》和《密探》；古斯塔夫·福楼拜：……
…John Donne: a bunch but if none else Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed Philip Larkin: he didn't write much; read the complete poems (if nothing else, look at "Born yesterday") T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Return of the Magi", "Hollow men" Ernest Hemmingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent Gustave Flaubert:…
T.S. 艾略特。《J. 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》把一个中年男人内心的不安全感刻画得淋漓尽致，而艾略特写这首诗时才23岁。
T.S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" perfectly captures the essence of a middle-aged man's insecurities, and Eliot wrote it when he was 23.
…read this line: "Through the rooms people (mostly women) come and go, talking occasionally in hushed tones of Michelangelo, and texting." Which is a cleverly-paraphrased reference to a line from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot.
…anthropologists and literati, so much waste paper." Perhaps so, and that's essentially what many of my fellow students and I thought of the poem when we studied it at high school along with Eliot's other epic The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock — although the latter was better tolerated. We spent months poring over The Wasteland line by line until we understood every nuance in every line (or I should say were supposed to know every nuance but…
…found Shakespeare a drugery and that was so for some. Their attitude was the words didn't make sense so why bother studying it (the same went for poetry, I recall some kids just giving up on Eliott's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land). Fortunately, I caught the Shakespeare bug and I'm very glad I did. Incidentally, we had a little textbook just called English Essays, it contained works by Addison, Steele, Bacon,…
…don't, to me and others they do Really? I've spent pretty much all my spare time and money on music for the last 30 years, but no lyrics by themselves have ever had the effect on me that, for example "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" has had ... but then maybe I'm looking at this wrong, and the prize is being awarded for the songs rather than just the lyrics. If that's the case then I guess the prize is well-deserved
……约翰·多恩：有一大堆，但就算别的都不读也得读《Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed》；菲利普·拉金：他写得不多，去读诗全集吧（实在不行，至少看看《Born yesterday》）；T.S. 艾略特：《J. 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》、《麦琪的旅行》、《空心人》；欧内斯特·海明威：《一个干净明亮的地方》；赫尔曼·梅尔维尔：《抄写员巴特比》；约瑟夫·康拉德：《黑暗的心》和《密探》；古斯塔夫·福楼拜：……
…John Donne: a bunch but if none else Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed Philip Larkin: he didn't write much; read the complete poems (if nothing else, look at "Born yesterday") T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Return of the Magi", "Hollow men" Ernest Hemmingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent Gustave Flaubert:…
T.S. 艾略特。《J. 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》把一个中年男人内心的不安全感刻画得淋漓尽致，而艾略特写这首诗时才23岁。
T.S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" perfectly captures the essence of a middle-aged man's insecurities, and Eliot wrote it when he was 23.
……读到这句：“房间里人们（多是女性）来来往往，偶尔低声谈论着米开朗基罗，还在发着短信。”这正是巧妙借用了T.S. 艾略特《J. 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》里的诗句。
…read this line: "Through the rooms people (mostly women) come and go, talking occasionally in hushed tones of Michelangelo, and texting." Which is a cleverly-paraphrased reference to a line from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot.
……人类学家和文人墨客来说，就是一堆废纸。”也许确实如此，高中时我和许多同学一起学这首诗以及艾略特的另一部史诗《J. 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》时，基本上也是这么想的——虽然后者大家接受度还高一点。我们花了几个月时间逐字逐句钻研《荒原》，直到搞懂每一行的所有深意（或者说本该搞懂所有深意，但是……
…anthropologists and literati, so much waste paper." Perhaps so, and that's essentially what many of my fellow students and I thought of the poem when we studied it at high school along with Eliot's other epic The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock — although the latter was better tolerated. We spent months poring over The Wasteland line by line until we understood every nuance in every line (or I should say were supposed to know every nuance but…
……觉得莎士比亚枯燥苦闷，对某些人来说确实如此。他们的态度是反正这些词句不知所云，何必费劲去学呢（诗歌也是一个道理，我记得有些同学直接放弃了艾略特的《J. 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》和《荒原》）。幸运的是，我彻底迷上了莎士比亚，为此我深感庆幸。顺便提一下，我们当时有一本小课本，名字就叫《English Essays》，里面收录了爱迪生、斯蒂尔、培根的作品，……
…found Shakespeare a drugery and that was so for some. Their attitude was the words didn't make sense so why bother studying it (the same went for poetry, I recall some kids just giving up on Eliott's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land). Fortunately, I caught the Shakespeare bug and I'm very glad I did. Incidentally, we had a little textbook just called English Essays, it contained works by Addison, Steele, Bacon,…
……并不觉得，但对我和其他人来说确实如此。真的吗？过去30年里我几乎把所有业余时间和钱都花在了音乐上，但从来没有哪段歌词单凭文字本身能像《J. 阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》那样震撼我……不过也许是我理解的角度不对，这个奖颁发是因为歌曲本身，而不仅仅是歌词。如果是这样的话，那我觉得这奖拿得名副其实
…don't, to me and others they do Really? I've spent pretty much all my spare time and money on music for the last 30 years, but no lyrics by themselves have ever had the effect on me that, for example "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" has had ... but then maybe I'm looking at this wrong, and the prize is being awarded for the songs rather than just the lyrics. If that's the case then I guess the prize is well-deserved