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Dla piękna umarłam -- translation
by Teresa Pelka → (All Poetry by Teresa Pelka)
Sunday, July 23, 2017    Rated "G" by the Author.
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I died for beauty, by Emily Dickinson

First print Time and Eternity poem X, 10

Johnson poem 449 | Franklin poem 448

I died for beauty, but was scarce

Adjusted in the tomb,

When one who died for truth was lain

In an adjoining room.

 

He questioned softly why I failed?

"For beauty," I replied.

"And I for truth, — the two are one;

We brethren are," he said.

 

And so, as kinsmen met a night,

We talked between the rooms,

Until the moss had reached our lips,

And covered up our names.

*****

Dla piękna umarłam, ale było mnie mało

Upasowanej w grobie,

Gdy spoczął ten, co umarł za prawdę

W sąsiednim pokoju.

 

Gładko zapytał, dlaczego przegrana?

„Dla piękna”, odparłam.

„A ja dla prawdy — to jak dwoje;

My bratanki”, zagaił.

 

Jak krewniacy, kiedy spotyka ich noc,

Trwaliśmy przez izby w rozmowie,

Aż mech sięgnął naszych ust,

I zakrył imiona.

 

 

 

 

 


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Reviewed by Teresa Pelka
Reviewed on July 24, 2017
.Ron,
I do not think it is about the dead talking. The poem is more as a fairy tale that says beauty and truth can get along, yet they may be mortal, because our world is.

Ancients told such stories; we can compare the tale of Eurydice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurydice

Emily Dickinson made more such tales, please compare Life XX, I TASTE A LIQUOR NEVER BREWED, Love XIII, RENUNCIATION, or Love XIV, LOVE’S BAPTISM.

.Jerry
I definitely agree Emily Dickinson deserves praise.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on July 24, 2017
Amazing, except for Ron, even the great Emily does not get the recognition she deserves here on AD.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 24, 2017
A gruesome fantasy to think that the dead in different rooms talk to one another. I have never read Emily Dickinson's poems, so I don't know if this is representative of her work or not.

But it's good to get translations of classics so that more people could read them.

Ron


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