（楊老師英語教學(xué)筆記12）簡(jiǎn)潔是詩歌之魂
10年級(jí)英語省考里面有一首詩歌，標(biāo)題是《頭發(fā)被剪短的男孩》：
Boy with His Hair Cut Short
by Muriel Rukeyser
Sunday shuts down on this twentieth-century evening.
The L1 passes. Twilight and bulb define
the brown room, the overstuffed plum sofa,
the boy, and the girl’s thin hands above his head.
A neighbour’s radio sings stocks, news, serenade.
He sits at the table, head down, the young clear neck exposed,
watching the drugstore sign from the tail of his eye;
tattoo, neon, until the eye blears, while his
solicitous2 tall sister, simple in blue, bending
behind him, cuts his hair with her cheap shears.
The arrow’s electric red always reaches its mark,
successful neon! He coughs, impressed by that precision.
His child’s forehead, forever protected by his cap,
is bleached against the lamplight as he turns head
and steadies to let the snippets drop.
Erasing the failure of weeks with level fingers,
she sleeks the fine hair, combing: “You’ll look fine tomorrow!
You’ll surely find something, they can’t keep turning you down;
the finest gentleman’s not so trim as you!” Smiling, he raises
the adolescent forehead wrinkling ironic now.
He sees his decent suit laid out, new-pressed,
his carfare on the shelf. He lets his head fall, meeting
her earnest hopeless look, seeing the sharp blades splitting,
the darkened room, the impersonal sign, her motion,
the blue vein, bright on her temple, pitifully beating.
這首詩沒有宏大敘事，沒有激情澎湃融虽，沒有對(duì)仗押韻赔桌。它僅僅摘取貧寒百姓生活中一個(gè)片段入问，言簡(jiǎn)意賅晶姊，情感真摯催人淚下童番。
詩歌前三行先描述了都市的燈紅酒綠霓虹閃爍表锻，交代了故事的背景牺汤。接下來五行介紹了詩歌的主角---男孩。他若有所思地注視著閃爍的霓虹燈浩嫌，似乎有滿腔心事檐迟。再下來兩行出現(xiàn)了另一名主角—男孩的姐姐补胚，用廉價(jià)的剪子在為弟弟剪頭發(fā)∽烦伲“廉價(jià)的剪子”(cheap shears)透露了這個(gè)家庭經(jīng)濟(jì)背景溶其。緊跟著的五行又回到了男孩的思緒。他還是專注著閃爍的霓虹燈敦间。霓虹燈暗喻著都市亮麗的一面（successful neon）瓶逃，讓窮人家的孩子好生羨慕(impressed by that precision)。下面把鏡頭轉(zhuǎn)向姐姐：她一邊剪發(fā)一邊寬慰求職未果的弟弟廓块。弟弟擠出笑容厢绝，眉頭深鎖(the adolescent forehead wrinkling ironic now)。姐姐把他的西裝熨好带猴，公車票也放在架子上昔汉。他和姐姐相對(duì)無言(meeting her earnest hopeless look)，明知世道之艱辛拴清，謀生之不易靶病，姐弟倆還要強(qiáng)顏歡笑，裝出一副“沒關(guān)系口予，明天會(huì)更好”的姿態(tài)娄周。
豈止是“貧賤夫妻百事哀”？窮人的孩子早當(dāng)家沪停。這首詩歌對(duì)生活在都市底層的平民百姓充滿悲憫之情煤辨，是難得的好詩。它讓我想起了中國(guó)的《賣炭翁》木张，《兵車行》众辨。
詩歌最后一句是點(diǎn)睛之作：姐姐蒼白的額角藍(lán)色的毛細(xì)血管可憐地跳動(dòng)著，清晰可見(the blue vein, bright onher temple, pitifully beating.)窟哺。簡(jiǎn)潔的一句泻轰，道盡了姐姐的孱弱和操勞，為我們呈現(xiàn)了一副“美麗的哀愁”的畫面且轨。
