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今天在网络上意外读到一首英语回文诗,那回读的难度系数真是不一般。一个字:绝!现在也掰一掰,滥竽充数,南郭一回。
我国的回文诗历史悠久,名家比比皆是。回文诗,顾名思义,颠来倒去都能诵读的诗。但历来好像更被文人骚客当作一种消遣的文字游戏,上不了台面。然留存下来的很多名篇佳作,给人以荡气回肠,情趣盎然的美感。
印象深刻的回文诗中最感人、颇具意境、遣词造句不凡的是宋代李禺写的《夫妻互忆回文诗》。
顺读为“夫忆妻”:
枯眼望遥山隔水, 往来曾见几心知。 壶空怕酌一杯酒, 笔下难成和韵诗。 迷路阻人离别久, 讯音无雁寄回迟。 孤灯夜守长寥寂, 夫忆妻兮父忆儿。
倒过来读为“妻忆夫”:
儿忆父兮妻忆夫, 寂寥长守夜灯孤。 迟回寄雁无音讯, 久别离人阻路途。 诗韵和成难下笔, 酒杯一酌怕空壶。 知心几见曾来往, 水隔山遥望眼枯。
看看李禺运用文字的功底和驾驭文字的功力,无论顺读还是倒读,都是那么优美。了了数语,把孤灯下夫忆妻和妻忆夫的思念刻画得入木三分、深情表达得淋漓尽致。岂是佩服两字了得?这是文字游戏么?
英语里,回文诗对应词是palindrome ['pælindrəum] ,其定义是:A palindrome is a word or a phrase which is the same when read from the start or the end, for example the word wow or racecar. Or how about the phrase; A Toyota’s a Toyota. where ever you start they are the same.
You would imagine a palindrome is pretty hard to think up, maybe the odd word could be easy enough, and with a bit of effort a phrase, well how about a 224 word poem? 要想出英语里的回文词或短语还不是很难,不过看看下面这首由224个英语单词的回文诗,不服不行。
Posted by Queuebot in Book & Lit on February 18, 2009 at 1:32 am
"Dammit I’m Mad"
by Demetri Martin
Dammit I’m mad. Evil is a deed as I live. God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt. To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss. Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help? Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell. I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”. Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp, In my halo of a mired rum tin. I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin. Is evil in a clam? In a trap? No. It is open. On it I was stuck. Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web. Be still if I fill its ebb. Ew, a spider… eh? We sleep. Oh no! Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position. Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name. Both, one… my names are in it. Murder? I’m a fool. A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash, A Goddam level I lived at. On mail let it in. I’m it. Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet! A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name. Name not one bottle minus an ode by me: “Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog” Evil is a deed as I live. Dammit I’m mad.
I promise you, bar some punctuation, it reads the same forwards or backwards.
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