真善美

The Convergence Of The Twain

I
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity, 遠離
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. 遠離今生的驕傲

II
Steel chambers, late the pyres
Of her salamandrine fires, (神話中的神，可以抵抗火)
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
燃料艙，是有cold的水流流過，把火葬用的柴堆已變成豎琴，發出顫律)

III
Over the mirrors meant
To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls-grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
客房部的鏡子，也是設計給有錢人照的，現在是海蟲，海蛇，黏答答的在上面，對他們來說一點也沒有意義。

IV
Jewels in joy designed
To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
帶著喜悅被設計出來的珠寶去擄獲重視愛慕 榮的人

lightless- 現在暗淡 ( 反諷)

1- 4  對照人的 虛華驕傲

V

Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?"...
用人的 personalification

VI
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,( 指船 titatic)
The Immanent Will(內在的意志力) that stirs and urges everything(在攪動著，在促使所有事運作)
轉折( 有run-on)

VII
Prepared a sinister mate ( 一個看不見的力量，預備一個邪惡的伴侶)
For her - so gaily great - 如此美好的伴侶
A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate. 冰山，為著未來一個遙遠看不見的未來

fatalism- titatic (時間，空間 都看不見)

VIII
And as the smart ship grew 當船越來越美，讓冰山有生命，慢慢地長大，冰山默默地。
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
(美vs邪惡)

IX
Alien they seemed to be:
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history,
他們似乎是無關的，世上沒有一個凡人，可以預知的道在未來的歷史上會有親密的結合

X
Or sign that they were bent
by paths coincident ( 交叉路)
On being anon(很快)  twin halves of one august event,
同時走向交叉路會路，促成一個重大事件 合起來是一個圓- 完整 )

twin- iceberg & ship

XI
Till the Spinner of the Years 命運女神- Immanent Will
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
(他自各自在各自的道路上，圓滿大結局，震驚全世界)