Ornithology in a World of Flux By Robert Penn Warren
It was only a bird call at evening, unidentified, As I came from the spring with water, across the rocky back-pasture; But so still I stood sky above was not stiller than sky in pail-water.
Years pass, all places and faces fade, some people have died, And I stand in a far land, the evening still, and am at last sure That I miss more that stillness at bird-call than some things that were to fail later.
变幻尘世中的鸟类学
罗伯特·佩恩·沃伦
那只是入夜时分的鸟鸣， 无法辨认的鸟,
我从泉边汲水归来， 穿过起伏不平的偏僻草场;
我驻足凝神， 水桶里的天空比头顶的天空还沉寂.
多年以后， 所有的地方和面孔都变得淡漠, 一些人已经死去.
而我身在他乡， 夜色依旧， 我终于确信
比起终将衰败的事物， 我更怀念那鸟鸣中的沉寂
Ornithology in a World of Flux
By Robert Penn Warren
It was only a bird call at evening, unidentified,
As I came from the spring with water, across the rocky back-pasture;
But so still I stood sky above was not stiller than sky in pail-water.
Years pass, all places and faces fade, some people have died,
And I stand in a far land, the evening still, and am at last sure
That I miss more that stillness at bird-call than some things
that were to fail later.
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比如：
“Back” 在这里应该是remote，isolated， "back pasture", "back roads" 时间应该不是夜晚因为还能看见水桶里天空的倒影， 应该还是傍晚吧？Flux在宝石学中是一个贬义词，立同学的躁动也有其境
一个月明之夜
……不过那么晚还去打水
夜晚确实有点晚
在诗中也只谈到一种鸟，莫名的鸟，根本扯不上鸟类学。
偏僻草场？我觉得还是有点过了
的拽，不搭调是一种需要。鸟类学用在这里强化了第一印象，最大限度的扩大了空间感和神秘感，从而丰富了寓意，上升了哲理性。
好像英語電影命名有類似的情況