最近在流利說打卡讀詩，讀到他寫的壹首關於愛情的詩歌名為《Unending love》(無止境的愛)，這首詩把過去當下和未來的愛情融為壹體，將愛升華。詩人比喻所有的愛情會像匯入時間的河流壹樣，不會結束，“In life after life, in age after age forever”。原文如下：
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
In life after life, in age after age forever.
My spell-bound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms
In life after life, in age after age forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together,
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount
At the heart of time love of one for another.
We have played alongside millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell -
Old love, but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heap ed at your feet, it has found its end in you,
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life,
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
?And the songs of every poet both past and forever.
讀英文的詩歌，生詞不會太多，但難點在於理解詩詞的意思。在閱讀中，我總結有幾點要註意：
1，單詞的意思應跳出字面解釋，並盡量結合上下文及語境理解。比如這首詩中，heap字典解釋為“堆積”，僅憑字面意思很難理解。於是結合上壹句講到過去的愛情重新翻新，那麽我理解上句和這句詩的意思應該就是“昨天的愛情重新翻新；新的愛情來到妳的腳邊，化入妳的靈魂。” 這樣讓語境更加連貫。當然，妳也可以有自己的理解，按照自己的想象翻譯我覺得都是沒有問題的。
2，詩詞中會有倒裝甚至省略動詞和介詞。如果讀起來不順時，可以適當調整下語序。比如詩歌的倒數第五行"Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you,The love of all man's days both past and forever:”這裏就用了倒裝。可以調整為"Today the love of all man's days both past and forever is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you." 作者用倒裝是為了突出解釋“the love of all man's days both past and forever” 就是冒號後面的那兩句。最後壹句詩歌也用了倒裝，只要把”And the songs of every poet both past and forever."插入"merging with...."調整為"The memories of all loves and the songs of every poet both past and forever merging with this one love of ours"。
3, 為了幫助理解詩歌的背景，可以去閱讀介紹作者的壹些文章和書籍。
spell-bound adj. 被咒語所鎮住的；出神的；被迷住的；茫然不知所之的
spell v. 拼寫，拼出 n. 魔法；符咒，咒語 | 〔某種活動、天氣、疾病等的〕壹段時間〔通常時間較短〕 | 吸引力，魅力；迷惑力
bound： bind的過去式和過去分詞? be bound (by sth ?受（某事物）約束
chronicles n. 聖經舊約
Clad? adj. 穿衣的；覆蓋的 vt. 在金屬外覆以另壹種金屬 v. 穿衣（clothe的過去式和過去分詞）
piercing adj. 刺穿的；敏銳的；尖刻的；打動人心的 n. 熔化穿孔 v. 刺穿；感動；洞察（pierce的ing形式）詩歌中是動詞的ing形式，表示穿破的動作
“Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time”這句詩可翻譯為“披著北鬥之光穿破黑暗”
讀這首詩，如果沒有了解過泰戈爾的情史，會簡單地認為這是熱戀中的人寫下的詩。了解過他和他老師的故事之後，就會明白在詩人心中，愛情永遠是壹段童話般的存在。
也許是因為這種若即若離的感覺更讓人難舍難分，於是詩人想象他的愛人為明亮的北鬥星，給予他慰藉。即使他們經歷了痛苦的分別，他仍以樂觀的心態將愛情的時限放寬至未來，他想象他們的愛和人世間所有的愛都融合在了壹起，他安慰自己說：“在愛情中的人何嘗沒有體會過這些痛苦呢？”。
他像壹個引路人帶著他的愛人來到壹個美麗的大千世界，在那裏他們體會到全世界的愛，聽到了所有的愛情贊歌。
讀完這首詩，妳會覺得豁然開朗，原來愛情還可以用在時間和空間的象限裏面放大放長。當我們在愛情中受傷的時候，讀壹讀，幫助我們樂觀地走出來；而當我們在享受愛情的時候，也讀壹讀，讓詩人的贊歌余音繞梁。