Metaphors of a Magnifico英文诗词

Metaphors of a Magnifico英文诗词

　　Metaphors of a Magnifico

　　by Wallace Stevens

　　Twenty men crossing a bridge，

　　Into a village，

　　Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges，

　　Into twenty villages，

　　Or one man

　　Crossing a single bridge into a village.

　　This is old song

　　That will not declare itself . . .

　　Twenty men crossing a bridge，

　　Into a village，

　　Are

　　Twenty men crossing a bridge

　　Into a village.

　　That will not declare itself

　　Yet is certain as meaning . . .

　　The boots of the men clump

　　On the boards of the bridge.

　　The first white wall of the village

　　Rises through fruit-trees.

　　Of what was it I was thinking？

　　So the meaning escapes.

　　The first white wall of the village . . .

　　The fruit-trees . . .