爱情小诗赏析

【原文】My love is like to ice,and I to fire;How comes it then that is her cold so great,Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,But harder grows the more I her entreat(央求)?Or how comes it that my exceeding heatIs not delayed(减缓,降低)by her heart-frozen cold;But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,And feel my flames(激情,狂热)augmented(增大的)mani-fold?What more miraculous(神奇的)thing may be told,That fire,which all things melts,should harden ice;And ice,which is congealed(凝结,冻结)with senselesscold,Should kindle fire by wonderful device?Such is the power of love in gentle mind,That it cad alter all the course of kind.【赏析】这首诗是英国伟大诗人爱德蒙特·斯宾塞(EdmundSpenser,1552?-1599)的代表作之一,是其著名的爱情诗集《爱情小诗》中的第30首。斯宾塞是英国文艺复兴时期杰出的诗人,被认为是英国诗歌史上最重要的六七个诗人之一,被誉为“诗人的

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