体验文学，勿拷打文学

品读文学，欲速则不达。




Introduction to Poetry

BY BILLY COLLINS


I ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the light

like a color slide



or press an ear against its hive.



I say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch him probe his way out,



or walk inside the poem’s room

and feel the walls for a light switch.



I want them to waterski

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author’s name on the shore.



But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope

and torture a confession out of it.



They begin beating it with a hose

to find out what it really means.





忽忆在初院时，英文文学老师曾给我们发了这首诗。

本来打了一堆字，再读却发觉词不达意，索性删了。

好诗共享。