albatross
Albatrosses are giant birds on the sea
Seafarers often catch it for fun
These leisurely companions on the road
He has always flown with the waves of sea vessels
The seafarers put them on deck
The King of the Blue Sky looked sluggish and frustrated
Huge wings hung miserably
Like two oars dragging beside you
The winged traveler is awkward and weak
How beautiful it used to be, how ugly and funny it is now
The man teased the shell of its mouth with a cigarette butt
The man imitated its disability and flightlessness
The poet is like the prince in the clouds
Drive the storm and look at the hunter
Once it falls to dust, it causes ridicule
The giant wings that hang in the sky prevent it from moving freely
Poetry is life, welcome to the "Caotang Reading Poetry" jointly launched by Cover News, Chengdu Radio and Television Station and Caotang Poetry Magazine, I am the reader juanzi. What you have just heard is Baudelaire's poem "Albatross", translated by Chen Jingrong.
Charles Baudelaire was one of the most famous modernist poets of the nineteenth century in France and a pioneer of Symbolist poetry, and he held an important position in the European and American poetry scenes, and his work "The Flower of Evil" is one of the most influential poetry collections of the nineteenth century.
Albatross was inspired by what the poet saw on his way to the island of Mauritius in 1841. Baudelaire used the albatross of being caught by sailors and placed on the deck, revealing a clumsy and painful state, as a metaphor for his worldly ridicule. When the first edition of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil came out in 1857, there was an immediate uproar. Not only did the Church and others viciously attack it, saying that it was unconventional, but even the famous literary critics of the time believed that Baudelaire had a very bad influence on French poetry. The poet was even tried, fined 200 francs, and ordered to delete six so-called "unconventional" poems from the collection. The poet felt great pain and grief at this. When The Flower of Evil was republished in 1861, feeling the misfortune he had suffered from the publication of The Flower of Evil, Baudelaire included the poem Albatross.
Baudelaire had a lonely, fanatical and melancholy soul, and he had literary and artistic concepts that were difficult for people to understand at the time. And these are inseparable from his experience.
Baudelaire was born in Paris on April 9, 1821. At the time, his father was 63 years old. In the year of his father's death, Baudelaire was only 6 years old, and the 6 years with his father were the happiest time for Baudelaire. Baudelaire's mother was only 26 when she married, and after her husband's death, she soon remarried to an officer. After his mother remarried, Baudelaire was sent to boarding school, where he sowed the seeds of a feeling of abandonment. He revealed in his diary that he was very lonely.
After graduating from high school, his stepfather wanted Baudelaire to pursue a career, but Baudelaire wanted to become a writer. So his parents sent him on a cruise ship to India, hoping that he would get training in India and then get a diplomatic position. But after der Lille boarded the cruise ship, he only arrived at Reunion Island and did not leave, returning to Paris after 9 months. At this time, Baudelaire reached the legal age to receive the inheritance. He took all the huge wealth left to him by his biological father, used the inheritance as a form of rebellion, and lived a life of eating, drinking and playing. Two years on, the legacy was spent in half. The stepfather and mother, fearing that he would not be able to live after spending his inheritance, found a guardian to pay Baudelaire a monthly living allowance. Baudelaire had to borrow usurious loans to maintain a luxurious life, and his relationship with his family became more and more rigid. In defiance, he drank alcohol and even committed suicide, but attempted suicide, and he later completely broke away from his family and moved into the Latin Quarter, where he lived with a mixed-race girl, Jeanne Duval, but never married.
Baudelaire's rebellion was not just against the family. As a Frenchman in the first half of the 19th century, Baudelaire also suffered from the "disease of the century" of the revolution. He watched France's repeated jumps between dictatorship and republicanism up close, hating the Restored Dynasty and at the same time resenting the corrupt bourgeoisie. He wanted to stand with the people who were enthusiastic about the revolution, but he felt desperate in the ignorance of the people. However, he was not a revolutionary. If revolutionary action is also carried out, it is in the creation of poetry. Since he could not complete it in life, he tried to use poetry to detect the phenomena and true meanings of existence.
Baudelaire's life was a life of rebellion, and his rebellion ended in tragedy. However, this is a flesh-and-blood rebellious tragedy, which he condenses into "The Flower of Evil", and wakes thousands of readers with vivid scenes, active characters, heart-rending shouts, and thought-provoking meditations.
Poetry is life, "grass hall reading poetry", there is temperature, there is texture. Baudelaire's poem "Albatross", and the poet's story are here today, thanks for the attention, we will see you in the next issue.
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