2019年成都的春天,乍暖还寒,这恰恰是刚进入青春期的孩子躁动不安、处处逆反的时节。今天,大果儿童情商石榴老师给这些自信心爆棚的孩子们推荐一首诗《母亲,任何距离》(Mother any distance),这首诗是2018年英国女王奖诗歌金奖获得者——英语文坛最高荣誉的文学奖之一——西蒙•阿米蒂奇(Simon Armitage)所作。
Mother any distance
Mother, any distance greater than a single span
requires a second pair of hands.
You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors,
the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors.
You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape, recording
length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base, then leaving
up the stairs, the line still feeding out, unreeling
years between us. Anchor. Kite.
I space-walk through the empty bedrooms, climb
the ladder to the loft, to breaking point, where something
has to give;
two floors below your fingertips still pinch
the last one-hundredth of an inch…I reach
towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky
to fall or fly.
西蒙•阿米蒂奇,英国当代著名诗人,作家。1963年出生于英国约克郡(Yorkshire)马斯登镇,在西约克郡(West Yorkshire)长大。他的诗歌观念很当代,内容贴近生活,词语通晓易懂,然而表现手法新颖独特,诗体和音律推陈出新,联想丰富,意象连绵,切合当代英国读者的思想状态和阅读口味。家庭、成长和友谊是他写作的重要主题,他常常以他的个人生活体验为题材,抒发人与人之间的关系。
然而,西蒙•阿米蒂奇自己的教育之路却毫不辉煌,晃晃悠悠上了英国很一般的朴次茅斯大学(University of Portsmouth)地理专业,随后取得曼彻斯特大学的硕士学位。他在英国一所公立中学读书,成天做白日梦,直接把他的诗句掐头抄上去, 语言是外部世界进入我们思想的途径,也许是他把所有的叛逆元素都交给了文学、艺术和诗歌。青春叛逆期的孩子不妨读读《母亲,任何距离》-西蒙•阿米蒂奇!