在艾略特<荒原>开始的四条诗句里,四月是从死亡中求得生存最为残酷的月份,紫丁香从死亡的土地里孕育,沉痛的回忆混淆着生命的欲望,春雨融化死一样的宁静洁白,搅乱了愚钝的根须。
这与传统对冬去春来,万物苏醒,耶稣复活的赞美形成强烈的反差。在乔叟四句经典诗句里,四月里的甘霖润透三月枯竭的根须,沐濯着丝丝相缠的茎络,触动了大地的点点生机,萌发出枝头含苞欲放的花蕾 。
而作者在小提琴抑扬声里感受乍暖还寒时候的纠葛,面对一个灾难深重的季节,回想起咖啡店门前一首抑郁的吉他曲, 和丝丝情感的牵绊与了断 ...
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WASTE LAND -- T. S. Eliot
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales -- Geoffrey Chaucer
WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
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