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Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty

Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty# Translation - 译林

b*g2003-11-03 08:11

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After giving a lively picture of a stationary urn in a gradual and
smooth-going way, the poet triggers the readers' thinking by the last
two lines. By the metaphysical phrase "Beauty is truth, truth beauty",
the poem invites the readers to search for a certain kind of beauty, the
ultimate truth, on earth or somewhere else.
Inevitably, my reading and understanding of this poem begins from the
final couplet. My interpretation is that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
is addressed to "ye", both the y

b*g2003-11-03 08:11

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Keats:
Ode on a Grecian Urn
1
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
2
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are

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: After giving a lively picture of a stationary urn in a gradual and
: smooth-going way, the poet triggers the readers' thinking by the last
: two lines. By the metaphysical phrase "Beauty is truth, truth beauty",
: the poem invites the readers to search for a certain kind of beauty, the
: ultimate truth, on earth or somewhere else.
: Inevitably, my reading and understanding of this poem begins from the
: final couplet. My interpretation is that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
: is addressed to "ye", both the y

t*n2003-11-03 08:11

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想来想去，觉得济慈那个Greican Urn和爱略特的Chinese Jar 正是一对啊。俩人都是
对着古瓷罐儿（好像国货还不行，非要进口的^_^）大发诗兴，感慨静止与运动、时间与
永恒、有限与无限 etc......

The Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot
Burnt Norton
V.
Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.
Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts,
Not that only, but the

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l*y2003-11-03 08:11

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Keats seemed to sing praise for the artwork which preserves beauty against
time and age: beauty triumphed and became the truth of life; while Eliot
embarked upon a dissertation (the master of patern and form in front of a
chinese jar) about movements of an artwork itself and how it was and was not
associated with time. The artist is inspired first, and the art is
resulted later; while we preceive art first and is touched by it later.
therefore, to the audience of art, the end is before the begin

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:
: 想来想去，觉得济慈那个Greican Urn和爱略特的Chinese Jar 正是一对啊。俩人都是
: 对着古瓷罐儿（好像国货还不行，非要进口的^_^）大发诗兴，感慨静止与运动、时间与
: 永恒、有限与无限 etc......
:
: The Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot
: Burnt Norton
: V.
: Words move, music moves
: Only in time; but that which is only living

b*g2003-11-03 08:11

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nice observation. following is part of Keats' letter to his brothers
talking about "negative capability"

or2003-11-03 08:11

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were they referring to the similar thing - art is time-independent?
quantum mechanics?;P

that
is
parts,
都
间

【在 l***y 的大作中提到】

: Keats seemed to sing praise for the artwork which preserves beauty against
: time and age: beauty triumphed and became the truth of life; while Eliot
: embarked upon a dissertation (the master of patern and form in front of a
: chinese jar) about movements of an artwork itself and how it was and was not
: associated with time. The artist is inspired first, and the art is
: resulted later; while we preceive art first and is touched by it later.
: therefore, to the audience of art, the end is before the begin

l*y2003-11-03 08:11

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oh come on, as if you weren't in that class! ;P

not
it?)
does
the
人
时

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: were they referring to the similar thing - art is time-independent?
: quantum mechanics?;P
:
: that
: is
: parts,
: 都
: 间