Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: To Silvia

Sto cercando il testo in lingua inglese della poesia "A Silvia" di
Leopardi.Qualcuno puņ aiutarmi?
Grazie

 Grazie
Well, it's simple... Just search about Leopardi's poetry on Google...
Here's one of the links I've found...
http://www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk/Webworks/Website/Tendleopardi.htm
Bye
Andrea

Grazie
Giacomo Leopardi
"A Silvia (To Silvia)"
(trans. A. S. Kline)
"Silvia, do you remember
the moments, in your mortal life,
when beauty still shone
in your sidelong, laughing eyes,
and you, light and thoughtful,went 
beyond girlhood’s limits?
The quiet rooms and the streets
around you, sounded
to your endless singing,
when you sat, happily content,
intent, on that woman’s work,
the vague future, arriving alive in your mind.
It was the scented May, and that’s how
you spent your day.
I would leave my intoxicating studies,
and the turned-down pages,
where my young life,
the best of me, was left,
and from the balcony of my father’s house
strain to catch the sound of your voice,
and your hand, quick,
running over the loom.
I would look at the serene sky,
the gold lit gardens and paths,
that side the mountains, this side the far-off sea.
And human tongue cannot say
what I felt then.
What sweet thoughts,
what hopes, what hearts, O Silvia mia!
How it appeared to us then,
all human life and fate!
When I recall that hope
such feelings pain me,
harsh, disconsolate,
I brood on my own destiny.
Oh Nature, Nature
why do you not give now
what you promised then? Why
do you so deceive your children?
Attacked, and conquered, by secret disease,
you died, my tenderest one, and did not see
your years flower, or feel your heart moved,
by sweet praise of your black hair
your shy, loving looks. 
No friends talked with you, 
on holidays, about love.
My sweet hopes died also
little by little: to me too
Fate has denied those years. Oh,
how you have passed me by,
dear friend of my new life,
my saddened hope!
Is this the world, the dreams, 
the loves, events, delights, 
we spoke about so much together?
Is this our human life?
At the advance of Truth
you fell, unhappy one,
and from the distance,
with your hand, you pointed
towards death’s coldness and the silent grave.
"
fonte : 
http://www.brindin.com/pileoas1.htm
(con versione originale accanto)
In questo sito puoi trovare molte altre traduzioni
di opere italiane.
ALEx


Che orrrroooreeee la versione in inglese !!!

 Che orrrroooreeee la versione in inglese !!!
It seems acceptable to me. After all, it just has to give the idea. Also, I
think the translator is competent enough. Am I wrong?
Bye, FB
-- 
L'importante è che risplenda tu, sola primadonna e immarcescibile leggenda
del tuo pianerottolo.
Lucangel


Mi riferivo semplicemente al fatto che le opere poetiche (ma non solo!)
tradotte in un'altra lingua, indipendentemente dalla bravura del traduttore,
perdono completamente il loro fascino.
Ciao.

 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:gC8nc.164257$hc5.7...@news3.tin.it...

Scusa. Ho dimenticato di aggiungere un pezzetto dell'originale.
Tanto per fare un confronto piu' diretto.
Silvia, rimembri ancora
quel tempo della tua vita mortale,
quando beltà splendea
negli occhi tuoi ridenti e fuggitivi,
e tu, lieta e pensosa, il limitare
di gioventù salivi? [...]
Silvia, do you remember
the moments, in your mortal life,
when beauty still shone
in your sidelong, laughing eyes,
and you, light and thoughtful,went
beyond girlhood's limits? [...]