Dover Beach

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;--on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the {AE}gean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To he before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

داور بيچ[1]

چه آرام امشب اين دريا.

كه مد آن دمادم، ماه

در آغوش دريا آرميده،

بس زيبا؛

كورسويي بر ساحل^[2]، پرتو افكند هر دم،

و يك دم محو مي گردد،

چه محكم صخره ها اينجا،

ايستاده بر خليج ساكن و آرام،

درخشان...، پر وسعت!!!

بيا اينجا، كنار پنجره، چه شيرين اين هواي شب...

ولي انگار: گوش جان بسپار!...

صداي غرش تير آساي موج غلتان را

كه از خط طويل آب بر لب ساحل،

مي ستاند سنگها از صخره ها،

پا پس مي كشد زان پس

 و ديگر بار در برگشت،

مي افكند آنرا تا سر حد ساحل ها...

شروع يك آن، ايست، وانگاه شروعي ديگر اندر راه،

با وزني چنان آهسته و لرزان،

فرا مي خواند آن سرمدي آهنگ محزون را.

كه خيلي قبل، اندر درياي ايجينا^[3]،

شنيد آنرا سوفكل^[4].

يادش آورد، آن اهنگ محزون

جزر و مد رنج انسان را.

مي يابيم ما اينك در اين آوا،

چنان انديشه اي؛

اين آواي گنگ از شمالين بحر دور.

بحر ايمان

بود انگه در مد كامل؛

بر گرفته اين زمين همچو يك حلقه ي مرصع

مامني امن.

ليك اينك،

غرش حزن انگيز اين دريا،

به گوشم مي رسد تنها.

آه، اي عشق، بيا راستين،

بهرهم باشيم.

كه اين دنيا كه همچون دشت روياها

پيش پامان سفره گسترده

بس زيبا، بس تازه، بس الوان،

ندارد بهره اي از نور و عشق و سرمستي،

نه صلحي، نه يقيني، نه حتي ياوري بر درد؛

و ما اينجا در اين آشفته بازار گريز و جهد،

فنا گرديم؛ چنان گويي كه بر تيرگي دشت اش،

نيروهاي اهريمن نباشد سازگار با شب.

متيو آرنولد

کشاورز سالخورده ای داشت با بدخلقی به ویرانه های سیل می نگریست. همسایه اش فریاد زد:هی! آب تمام خوک هایت را به پایین خلیج برده است.

کشاورز پرسید:خوک های تامپسن چه شده اند؟

- آنها را هم آب برده.

- و خوک های لارسن؟

- بله.

کشاورز با خوشحالی فریاد زد: به آن بدی هم که من فکر میکردم نیست.

Sonnet 144  William Shakespear

Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend
Suspect I may, but not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

^{On Shakespeare, 1630}

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones
The labour of an age in pilèd stones?
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-ypointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Has built thyself a livelong monument.
For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book
Those Delphic lines with deep impression took,
Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving,
Dost make us marble with too much conceiving,
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK

By
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was born in Dublin, Ireland, and is probably best known for his book, Gulliver's Travels.

This short piece about a broomstick was written in 1704 as a burlesque on Robert Boyle's Meditations

This single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest;  it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk;  'tis now, at best, but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air;  'tis now handled by every dirty wench, condemned to do her drudgery, and, by a capricious kind of fate, destined to make other things clean, and be nasty itself: at length, worn to the stumps in the service of the maids, it is either thrown out of doors, or condemned to the last use, of kindling a fire.  When I beheld this I sighed, and said within myself,  Surely man is a Broomstick!  Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk: he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs (all covered with powder) that never grew on his head; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity.  Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, and other men's defaults!

But a broomstick, perhaps, you will say, is an emblem of a tree standing on its head; and pray what is man, but a topsyturvy creature, his animal faculties perpetually mounted on his rational, his head where his heels should be, groveling on the earth!  and yet, with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances, rakes into every slut's corner of Nature, bringing hidden corruption to the light, and raises a mighty dust where there was none before; sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away:  his last days are spent in slavery to women, and generally the least deserving, till, worn out to the stumps, like his brother besom, he is either kicked out of doors, or made use of to kindle flames for others to warm themselves by.

ممنون از کمنت هاتون...این هم توضیحی در مورد رسول یونان شاعر ، مترجم ، نمايش نامه و داستان نويس ...

من رسول هستم پسر محمد. در دهکده ای دور کنار دریاچه چی چست به دنیا آمده ام و همه اش سی و سه سال دارم. فعلا ساکن تهران هستم و اضافه کنم که به طور کاملا شانسی از اینجا سردرآوردم یعنی اگر تنها اتوبوس دهکده به شهر دیگری جای شهر تهران می رفت حتما الان آنجا بودم. باقی جزئیات زندگی ام را در کتاب هایم خرد کرده ام.

کتاب ها:

- روز بخیر محبوب من ( مجموعه شعر )

- کلبه ای در مزرعه برفی ( مجموعه داستان )

- گندمزار دور ( نمایشنامه )

- کنسرت در جهنم ( مجموعه شعر )

- بنرجی چرا خودکشی کرد؟ ( رمان – شعر از ناظم حکمت)

- یک کاسه عسل ( گزینه شعر ناظم حکمت)

- روزهای چوبی ( گزینه شعر جهان)

- من يك پسر بد بود (مجموعه شعر ) /زیر چاپ

- فرشته‌ها (26 داستان ميني‌مال)

- سايه‌ي نقره‌يي (ترجمه‌ي شعر معاصر آذربايجان ايران)

- شعرهاي عزيز نسين

- واگن سياه (نوشته‌ي وكير يلديز)

- قصه‌ي كوچك عشق (يك داستان كوتاه)

يونان اين روزها به ويرايش رمانش - «ليلا دير كرده» - مشغول است.

اما هرگز نیا

اگر بیایی

همه چیز خراب میشود

دیگر نمیتوانم

اینگونه با اشتیاق

به دریا و جاده خیره شوم

من خو کرده ام

به این انتظارها

به این پرسه زدن ها

در اسکلت و ایستگاه

اگر بیایی

من چشم به راه چه کسی بمانم؟

رسول یونان

تو از من يه فرشته ساختی

يه فرشته ی بلوری

اما اون

يهو افتاد و شكست

ذره ذره شد

يه ذره ی كوچيكی از اون

اومد و رفت تو دل من

تو تموم وجودم پخش شد

من يه فرشته شدم

اما اين بار تو ديگه بهش دست نزدی

خيلي ها ليست منابع ارشد رو خواسته بودند. اين ليست كتابهايي كه خووندنشون براي كنكور كارشناسي ارشد رشته ي  آموزش زبان انگليسي  توصيه ميشه. اين ليست رو از استاد راهنمامون گرفتم. ليست literature هم براتون ميزارم.

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