thinking what a fool
for love I've been
after a long sigh
I again pick up
Madame Bovary
Fire Pearls, Vol. 2, 2013
Sylvia Forges-Ryan
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
想到我一直是
愛情的傻瓜
長嘆一聲後，
我再次拿起小說
包法利夫人
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
想到我一直是
爱情的傻瓜
长叹一声後，
我再次拿起小说
包法利夫人
Bio Sketch
Sylvia
Forges-Ryan recently won Third Prize in the 2014 Robert Frost Poetry
Contest for her poem, "On a Berkshire Hill". Her book, Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace,
which won an R. H. Blyth Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books in
Haiku Literature from the World Haiku Review in 2013, was selected for
permanent inclusion in the American Literature Collection of the
Beinecke Library at Yale University.
Ls 1&2 establish the thematic and emotional context of the poem while the symbolically rich and socioculturally significant L5 adds emotional weight and psychological depth to the poem.
ReplyDeleteNote: "Madame Bovary (1856) is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.... She has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty, wealth, passion, and high society. It is the disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life that drive most of the novel, most notably leading her into two extramarital love affairs as well as causing her to accrue an insurmountable amount of debt that eventually leads to her suicide."