Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins 诗歌介绍-比利.柯林斯

我要求他们拿一首诗
举到灯下
像一个彩色的幻灯片
或者把耳朵压在蜂窝上。
我说老鼠不知不觉进入一首诗
观察着他寻路而逃
或者走进这首诗的房子
触摸墙壁上的一个电灯开关。
我要他们做划水运动
游弋在一首诗歌的水面
向岸上作者的名字挥手
而且他们都要做
把一首诗用绳子系到一把椅子上
折磨它招出供词
他们开始用橡皮管子抽打它
找出它真实的意义
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.