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エリザベスビショップ(著者),小口未散(訳者)

2011/12/23

映画「インハーシューズ」で読書障害の主人公が老人ホームで勤務しているとき、元教師のホーム利用者の老人に励まされ、ゆっくりと声にだして『One Art』という詩を読む。

キャメロン・ディアスが盲目の教授に読んで聞かせるのはエリザベス・ビショップの『One Art』、E・E・カミングスの『I Carry Your Heart With Me』という詩 。

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.