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[非马]

Biltmore Mansion


where can I find thousands of spacious buildings
to house the world’s poor scholars and make them happy
--Tu Fu, "Song of The Thatched Hut Blown Down by Autumn Wind"


This mansion, more spacious than a royal palace
might not be able to house all the world’s poor scholars
but it can easily make a few hundred of them
less unhappy

This morning the wind is calm and the sun bright
and these people holding tickets in their hands
with their heads high on their shoulders
sure don’t look like any poor scholars to me
they move around the ornate furniture and decoration
admiring the beautiful image
of the hostess behind the curtains of time
and sniffing at the still-permeating aroma
of perfumed hair and wine and food
from banquets a hundred years ago

Besides, they probably have never heard
of the name Tu Fu
in fact they might even confuse it
with Tofu, the weight-reducing health food
also from China

Biltmore House, the largest private home built in America at the end of the 19th century, is situated on 8,000 acres in Asheville, North Carolina. It has 250 rooms, 65 fireplaces, 43 bathrooms, 34 bedrooms, and 3 kitchens.

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Biltmore Mansion


where can I find thousands of spacious buildings
to house the world’s poor scholars and make them happy
--Tu Fu, "Song of The Thatched Hut Blown Down by Autumn Wind"


This mansion, more spacious than a royal palace
might not be able to house all the world’s poor scholars
but it can easily make a few hundred of them
less unhappy

This morning the wind is calm and the sun bright
and these people holding tickets in their hands
with their heads high on their shoulders
sure don’t look like any poor scholars to me
they move around the ornate furniture and decoration
admiring the beautiful image
of the hostess behind the curtains of time
and sniffing at the still-permeating aroma
of perfumed hair and wine and food
from banquets a hundred years ago

Besides, they probably have never heard
of the name Tu Fu
in fact they might even confuse it
with Tofu, the weight-reducing health food
also from China

Biltmore House, the largest private home built in America at the end of the 19th century, is situated on 8,000 acres in Asheville, North Carolina. It has 250 rooms, 65 fireplaces, 43 bathrooms, 34 bedrooms, and 3 kitchens.

[非马]

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有兴趣的读者请到<时代诗潮>参阅本诗中文版.

[ericcoliu]

It’s a good poem to explore the concept of “cross-cultural intertextuality.”

The intertextual aspect of the first stanza highlights the cross-cultural awareness expressed in the last stanza in an ironically humorous, or humorously ironical way.


they move around the ornate furniture and decoration
admiring the beautiful image
of the hostess behind the curtains of time
and sniffing at the still-permeating aroma
of perfumed hair and wine and food
from banquets a hundred years ago


The spectre of the Gilded Age is still haunting us to-day.

The consumers of America, United!
_________________
Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[[ericcoliu]]

It’s a good poem to explore the concept of “cross-cultural intertextuality.”

The intertextual aspect of the first stanza highlights the cross-cultural awareness expressed in the last stanza in an ironically humorous, or humorously ironical way.


they move around the ornate furniture and decoration
admiring the beautiful image
of the hostess behind the curtains of time
and sniffing at the still-permeating aroma
of perfumed hair and wine and food
from banquets a hundred years ago


The spectre of the Gilded Age is still haunting us to-day.

The consumers of America, United!
_________________
Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[Champagne]

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