E08 苏词几万阕，挥毫墨如钩

E08 苏词几万阕，挥毫墨如钩

课程导读

上节课中，林语堂直言“我们只能知道自己真正了解的人，我们也只能完全了解自己真正喜爱的人”，而他偏爱的诗人正是苏东坡。本节课中，林先生将向我们娓娓道来，自己喜爱苏东坡的其中一个原因。让我们看看他是如何妙笔生花，用“借西表东”的手法，点出苏东坡的鲜活魅力。而莎士比亚的出场，又将为这段描写增添什么样的光彩呢？

英文原文

For me the great personality of Su Tungpo today stands out more sharply and fully etched against his life and writings than that of any other Chinese writer.

There are two reasons for the clearness of the mental portrait of Su Tungpo in my mind.

First, it comes from the brilliance of Su Tungpo's own mind, stamped upon every line he wrote, like the black luster of ink in the two original bamboo paintings by Su that I have seen, which still glistens as if it were applied only an hour ago.

This is a curious phenomenon, as in the case of Shakespeare, too.

The vitality of Shakespeare's lines, coming straight from a sensitive and generous mind, remains fresh today.

In spite of the labors of generations of research scholars, we still know extremely little about his external life; yet we feel some four hundred years after his death that we know the recesses of his mind by the power of emotion he injects into his writing.