THE ROSE TREE
장미나무를 노래함
by William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
(부분)번역(transl.): 김종인(Zong-in Kim)
(피어스가 코널에게):
“아-... 사람들 내뱉는 말들이 저리도 가벼워서야...(!)
별 뜻도 없이 아무렇게나 내뱉는 저들의 정치적 언사(言辭)나
노도처럼 일어 휘몰아치는 바닷바람이 (조국독립 염원하는)
우리들 애국심(/맘 속 장미나무들)에
수난의 대못 박(/말라비틀어지게 하)나...
'O words are lightly spoken,'
Said Pearse to Connolly,
'Maybe a breath of politic words
Has withered our Rose Tree;
Or maybe but a wind that blows
Across the bitter sea.'
'It needs to be but watered,'
James Connolly replied,
'To make the green come out again
And spread on every side,
And shake the blossom from the bud
To be the garden's pride.'
'But where can we draw water,'
Said Pearse to Connolly,
'When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There's nothing but our own red blood
Can make a right Rose Tree.'
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※ The Rose Tree by William Butler Yeats | Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/.../57315
----(Notes):
Padraig Pearse: Patrick Henry Pearse (1879-1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen others, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of ...
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pearse)
James Connolly: James Connolly (1868-1916) was an Irish republican, ..., aligned to syndicalism and multiple political parties such as .... He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. .... He was executed by a British firing squad ...
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly)
“a breath of”: --> a slight movement of (air/wind)
“bitter sea”: 고해(苦海). (cf.1): Mine is a lost soul that swims in a bitter sea. Overlayed and swamped by waves of jealousy. Caught and held under by a rising tide of nightpearl in a bitter sea.
(cf.2): She was in a bitter sea of regrets, trying to swim above the waves as they came crashing down onto her. Regrets of thousands of years piling up against her.
----(코멘트):
It describes a fictional conversation between James Connolly and Padraig Pearse, the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. They state that they are willing to give their own lives to see the restoration of an Ireland governed by the Irish. The overt symbolism is that of Christ's crucifixion; that ...
(※ [PPT]The Rose Tree lect 25.pptx
lib.vcomsats.edu.pk/.../The%20Rose%20Tree%20lect%2025.pptx)