"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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The first of its kind--a comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle, a delightful poetic form whose popularity ranks only behind that of the sonnet and the haiku. With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeating lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle is a form that has fascinated poets since its introduction almost two centuries ago. Many well-known poets in the past have tried their hands at the villanelle, and the form is enjoying a revival among poets writing today. The poems collected here range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century to such famous and memorable examples as Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night," Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," and Sylvia Plath's "Mad Girl's Love Song." Here too are the cutting-edge works of contemporary poets, including Sherman Alexie, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and many others whose poems demonstrate the dazzling variety that can be found within the parameters of a single, strict form. READ an excerpt from the introduction here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/215655/villanelles/
《中英對照讀新聞》Singing ’rewires’ damaged brain 唱歌讓受傷大腦「重新通電」
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Teaching stroke patients to sing "rewires" their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists. By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech. If a person’s "speech centre" is damaged by a stroke, they can learn to use their "singing centre" instead.
科學家說，教中風病患唱歌來讓他們的大腦「重新通電」，有助讓他們恢復說話。病患藉著唱歌，使用大腦中與語言相關區域不同的區塊，若一個人的「語言中樞」因為中風受損，他們可以學著使用「唱歌中樞」來替代。
An ongoing clinical trial, they said, has shown how the brain responds to this "melodic intonation therapy". The therapy is already established as a medical technique.
他們說，一份正在進行的臨床試驗顯示大腦如何回應這種「旋律聲調治療法」。這種療法已被確立為醫療技術。
Most of the connections between brain areas that control movement and those that control hearing are on the left side of the brain. But there’s a sort of corresponding hole on the right side. For some reason, it’s not as endowed with these connections, so the left side is used much more in speech. But as patients learn to put their words to melodies, the crucial connections form on the right side of their brains.
大腦控制行動的區塊與控制聽覺的區塊，之間的聯繫多數發生在左腦，但右腦有某種回應的漏洞，因為一些原因，天生沒有這種連結，所以說話時，左腦使用的比較多，但當病患學習將字詞放入旋律時，這種重要的連結就會在右腦形成。
During the therapy sessions, patients are taught to put their words to simple melodies. After a single session, a stroke patients who was are not able to form any intelligible words learned to say the phrase "I am thirsty" by combining each syllable with the note of a melody.
治療時，病患被指導把要說的話放進簡單的旋律中，經過一個階段，一名沒辦法說出清晰字詞的中風病患，藉著將每個音節與一段旋律的音符連結，學會說了「我口渴」這個短句。
新聞辭典
ongoing：形容詞，正在進行的。例句：No agreement has yet been reached and the negotiations are still ongoing.（目前談判尚未達成協議，仍在進行當中。）
be endowed with：片語，與生俱有……。例句：Some lucky people are endowed with both brains and beauty.（一些幸運的人智慧與美貌兼具。）
intelligible：形容詞，（說話或寫字）清晰的。例句：She was so upset when she spoke that she was hardly intelligible.（她難過到說話都說不太清楚。）
rewire
v., -wired, -wir·ing, -wires. v.tr.
To provide with new wiring: rewired the old house.
v.intr.
To install new wiring.
terza rima
n., pl. ter·ze ri·me (tĕr'tsĕ rē'mĕ).
A verse form of Italian origin consisting of tercets of 10 or 11 syllables with the middle line rhyming with the first and third lines of the following tercet.
[Italian : terza, feminine of terzo, third + rima, rhyme.]
terza rima
Pronunciation: /ˌvɪləˈnɛl/
Definition of villanelle in English:
noun
Origin
Late 19th century: from French, from Italian villanella (see villanella).
A villanelle (also known as villanesque)[1] is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed verse form. The word derives from Latin, then Italian, and is related to the initial subject of the form being the pastoral.
The form started as a simple ballad-like song with no fixed form; this fixed quality would only come much later, from the poem "Villanelle (J'ay perdu ma Tourterelle)" (1606) by Jean Passerat. From this point, its evolution into the "fixed form" used in the present day is debated. Despite its French origins, the majority of villanelles have been written in English, a trend which began in the late nineteenth century. The villanelle has been noted as a form that frequently treats the subject of obsessions, and one which appeals to outsiders; its defining feature of repetition prevents it from having a conventional tone.
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[hide]Etymology[edit]
The word villanelle derives from the Italian villanella, referring to a rustic song or dance,[2] and which comes from villano, meaning peasant or villein.[3] Villano derives from the Medieval Latin villanus, meaning a "farmhand".[4] The etymology of the word relates to the fact that the form's initial distinguishing feature was the pastoral subject.[2]
ヴィラネル（villanelle）には2つの異なる意味がある。
