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a green thought in a green shade

Alexandra

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Από το ποίημα The Garden του Andrew Marvell (1621-1678):

Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness:
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.


Δεν καταλαβαίνω τι εννοεί.
 

nickel

Administrator
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Κι εγώ, που πέρασα τα τελευταία 45 χρόνια πιστεύοντας ότι είχα πια γλιτώσει από τον Μάρβελ...

Πάρε μια ιδέα:
In 'The Garden', he makes his most concerted attempt to heal the breach and restore that apprehension of unity - between body and mind, man and environment - the loss of which sent the Mower wandering in homeless exile. Many ingenious and esoteric explanations of the line 'To a green thought in a green shade' have been devised, but however much it may resonate with symbolic meanings, its extraordinary hold over the imagination comes from the simple conjunction of thought and shade, internal and external modes of reality, simply expressed in monosyllables.
http://books.google.com/books?id=R9A8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ή:
"But the principal clue to Marvell's nature-mystique lies, I think, in the obsession that green had for him," wrote Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardener. "He used it in and out of season, moreover he supplemented it by constant references to shade and shadow, which were all part of the same line of thought. Marvell was highly sensitive to colour—an argument which could be substantiated by numerous instances;— all variations of light and shade were to him a perpetual delight; but of all colours it was green that enchanted him most; the world of his mind was a glaucous world, as though he lived in a coppice, stippled with sunlight and alive with moving shadows" (quoted MacDonald xxix-xxx).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_(poem)

Μια πράσινη σκέψη σε μια πράσινη σκιά... (μη θέλεις και μονοσύλλαβα!).
 

drsiebenmal

HandyMod
Staff member
Όχι ότι βλέπω πώς θα ταίριαζε εδώ, αλλά το πράσινο χρώμα έχει και άλλη σημασία στα αγγλικά φολκλόρ: Green is also known to have signified witchcraft, devilry and evil for its association with faeries and spirits of early English folklore (γουίκη).
 
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