What Is Life? Poem by Luo Zhihai

★ What Is Life?

☆ Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Resembles Life what once was held of Light,
Too ample in itself for human sight?
An absolute Self- an element ungrounded-
All, that we see, all colours of all shade
[Image]By encroach of darkness made? -
Is very life by consciousness unbounded?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death?


▲ Chinese Translation

★ 生命是什么？

☆ [英国] 塞缪尔•泰勒•柯勒律治（1772-1834） 诗
☆ [中国] 罗志海 (1954-) 译


就像生命曾经被光把握住
人类视野本就太过充足？
绝对自我——一个无根基的元素
我们看到，全部色彩，全部阴影，全部的全部
[概念]被黑暗蚕食侵占？——
十足的生命意识无极限？
全部人类的呼吸、思想、痛苦、欢笑
投入生死格斗的怀抱？


2015年5月11日翻译
On May 11 2015, Translation