9
我是王維林
悲情如雪我就在你們中間
我也將指揮歡樂頌開啟中國的勃蘭登堡門
我訂購了永遠在場的歷史門票
自從那個永不消失的早晨。
"I am Wang Weilin (the 'Tiananmen Tank Man')" Poem No. 9 (of 9)
-- by 北明 'Northern Brightness'
-- Translated by Frank C Yue
Tragically romantic and cold,
I am in your midst in blowing snow --
The "Ode to Joy" also I'll be conducting
When the 'Bradenburg Gate in China' is unlocking!
I have bought my ticket for
The "World History Show", that's in existence fore'ermore,
Since that fateful Never-Fading ("June 4") Morning.
Notes by Translator:
1. 我也將指揮 "歡樂頌" : ("Ode to Joy" is originally "Ode to Freedom"!)
the following excerpted from 'wikipedia':
"歡樂頌" or "Ode to Joy" is written in 1785 by Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright and historian. Best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in (the final movement of) his Ninth Symphony, Beethoven's tune was adopted as the Anthem of Europe (by the Council of Europe in 1972), and subsequently the European Union.
... <Despite the lasting popularity of the ode, Schiller himself regarded it as a failure later in his life, going so far as calling it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe for us two, but not for the world, nor for the art of poetry" in a 1800 letter to his long-time friend and patron Christian Gottfried Körner (whose friendship had originally inspired him to write the ode).
To the extent the foregoing account is true, it may be due to Schiller's having changed a key word out of fear. "Leonard Bernstein reminded his audiences, the poem was originally an 'Ode to Freedom' and the word 'Joy' (Freude instead of Freiheit, added to the third pillar, Freundschaft) came as a substitute for the more overtly political theme.">
2. 開啟中國的 "勃蘭登堡門" the "Bradenburg Gate of China" :
the following excerpted from 'wikipedia':
... <Despite the lasting popularity of the ode, Schiller himself regarded it as a failure later in his life, going so far as calling it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe for us two, but not for the world, nor for the art of poetry" in a 1800 letter to his long-time friend and patron Christian Gottfried Körner (whose friendship had originally inspired him to write the ode).
To the extent the foregoing account is true, it may be due to Schiller's having changed a key word out of fear. "Leonard Bernstein reminded his audiences, the poem was originally an 'Ode to Freedom' and the word 'Joy' (Freude instead of Freiheit, added to the third pillar, Freundschaft) came as a substitute for the more overtly political theme.">
2. 開啟中國的 "勃蘭登堡門" the "Bradenburg Gate of China" :
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