EL HOMBRE DE NIEVE
Wallace Stevens
Uno debe tener espíritu de invierno
Para mirar la escarcha y las ramas
De los pinos cubiertos de nieve;
Y haber tenido frío durante mucho tiempo
Para contemplar los enebros goteando hielo,
Los toscos pinabetes en el distante brillo
Del sol de enero; y no pensar
En ninguna aflicción en el sonido del viento,
En el rumor de unas cuantas hojas,
Que es la voz de la tierra
Llena del mismo viento
Que sopla en el mismo lugar baldío
Para el oyente, quien oye en la nieve,
Y, él mismo nadie, contempla
Nada que no esté allí y la nada que allí está.
(Traducción: Miguel Ángel Flores; El hombre con la guitarra azul y otros poemas, 1988.)
domingo, enero 25, 2015
The snow man
THE SNOW MAN
Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
(Harmonium, 1923.)
Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
(Harmonium, 1923.)
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