Name: 【TED】斯蒂芬-伯特:為什麼人們需要詩歌（斯蒂芬-伯特：為什麼人們需要詩歌）。 (【TED】Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry (Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:29:23.000Z
Duration: 13 min 13 s

譯者: Joyce Chen 審譯者: Yamei Huang

in words rather than, say, pictures or numbers,

and when I have a new experience or a new feeling,

我反而最能透過文字，深刻的理解這個世界

直到我能嘗試將它們化為文字為止。

I devoured science fiction as a child. I still do.

小時侯，我總是貪婪的 閱讀科幻小說，現在依舊如此

而我會在裡面發現一些詩， 像是安德魯・馬維爾、

馬修・阿諾、艾蜜莉・狄金森、

because they were quoted in science fiction,

因為這些科幻小說引用了他們的詩

於是我開始研究何謂八行詩體、

that you care about if you already care about poems,

也就是那些如果你已經很愛好詩， 就會去在乎的東西，

Now, poetry isn't one thing that serves one purpose

因為我想知道詩如何產生 及詩詞背後的起因。

any more than music or computer programming

詩並不是為了單一目的而存在的產物，

The greek word poem, it just means "a made thing,"

"詩"的希臘文，僅代表"一個成品"，

in things you might already like or love.

且對於某些你已喜歡或深愛的事物，

詩能讓你理會出其中更多奧妙。

詩似乎在某些方面顯得特別有用。

Poems are made of words, nothing but words.

但詩，能幫助我們與這念頭和平共生。

詩是由文字組成，就只是字而已。

that distinguish people from one another.

Poems are easy to share, easy to pass on,

and when you read a poem, you can imagine

你能夠想像有人正在 傳達訊息給你、為你發聲

甚至是為一個與你相隔遙遠的人、

That's why we can go to poems when we want to

或為一個虛構的人、已故的人發聲。

and that's one reason poems can seem important,

或是道別時，都會藉由詩來抒發情感。

這也是為什麼從古至今，詩文總是佔有一席之地

who don't so much live in a world of words.

他們沒有沉迷於文字的世界裡， 詩也一樣受歡迎。

"If you don't need poetry, bully for you,"

but he also said when he didn't want to be alive anymore,

the thought that he wouldn't write any more poems

但他也曾說，當他失去了活下去的動力時，

他如果想到"這樣就無法再創作任何詩了"，

and I want to show you why by showing you how,

how a couple of poems react to the fact that

我要藉由展示來告訴你們為什麼，

we're alive in one place at one time in one culture,

我們只存活於一個地方、 一個時空、一個文化，

So here's one of the first poems I memorized.

而超越了那個時空， 我們根本稱不上活著。

下面這是我最早背起的詩之一，

講述的對象可以是小孩或大人：

否則我就快回到 風起前的的四面八方，

It's furnished at least three science fiction titles,

I think because it says poems can brings us news

這首詩被用於至少 三部科幻小說的標題裡，

我想是因為這首詩點出： 詩總是能帶給我們一些信息，

because their patterns can seem to tell you

It says poems can bring people together temporarily,

詩能短暫的將人們凝聚在一起，

and it sticks in my head not just because it rhymes

而這首詩會留在我腦海，不只是因為它押韻，

with anticipatory hints on the one and three,

as if the poem itself were coming together.

這首詩好像是自己渾然天成的。

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