2008年12月27日星期六

Oh! Captain, My Captain! —— 《Dead Poets Society》


悲壮豪情的苏格兰风笛响起,英俊少年一个接一个克服怯懦,勇敢坚毅得站上课桌,居高临下看向他们的Captain,用诗一般的语调呼喊"Oh! Captain, My Captain!",激情从我久已尘封的心中升腾而起,化作无法抑制的泪水在眼角飞溅......

当激昂青春在风景如画的寄宿学校挥洒,当叛逆精神被貌不惊人的你从沉睡中唤起、当旺盛生命力在他们眼中流泻,当气势磅礴的歌剧在我耳畔环绕,当激情洋溢的诗句从他们口中迸发,当他们在幽暗的山洞中击节而歌,我艳羡,艳羡他们的幸运,白衣飘飘的年代与你不期而遇;我渴望,渴望重回我的青春,重写那天真无知的篇章。

1989年的经典《Dead Poets Society》,在无数次错过中,20年后的今天,我终于如愿。多么漫长的等待,也几乎荒芜一生。

如果,有如果,在1989年遇见你,my Captain, 聆听你的字字珠玑,传承你的自由主义,寻获自己的声音,我的人生,又会驶向何处?你可知,我是多么的遗憾?20年前,我没能从你那学到“一致的危险性”;20年来,我虚掷光阴,我随波逐流,没能够活出真我,也不曾活出精彩。

"Carpe diem!"你用拉丁语告诉他们要及时行乐,花开堪折直须折。

"Sezie the day, make your lives extraordinary." 你用英语教育他们要抓紧时间,让生活与众不同。

They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty,romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way. Even though it may seem silly or wrong, you must try!        

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.  

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, and not when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived。

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go,

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

呜呼!吾生闻道已晚,而良时不再矣。惜哉痛哉!

Oh! Captain, My captain! 你看,你看,沉默的凝视中,你的教诲,已是春风化雨,润物无声......

走好,My Captain!

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