前言： 很巧的是，這部電影是在我剛剛讀完歐洲浪漫主義的專著后看的，對電影中前后兩次關于“浪漫主義”的解讀印象尤為深刻。但是正如電影中的臺詞，“浪漫主義沒有理論可言”，因此我不想做什么無謂的解讀，僅摘錄電影中的部分臺詞。中文翻譯部分以tx的官方字幕為主要參考，對部分誤譯臺詞的譯文進行了調整和重譯。 Now the faculty would have me teach it was Wordsworth, Keats and Coleridge who, in writing about love, defined the Romantic Age. And they’ve told me to ignore Byron. ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’ was how one of his many lovers described him. He was controversial. It was Byron who defined the Romantic Age, which wasn’t about love. It was about going your own way. Defying authority and following your heart. Sticking it to the man and as many women as possible. Now that’s Romantic. 學校要我教授華茲華斯、濟慈和柯勒律治，他們所寫的愛情著作定義了浪漫主義時期。他們讓我無視拜倫。他的其中一位情人是這么形容他的：“瘋狂，惡劣，危險。”他確實極具爭議性。浪漫主義時期的真正定義者其實是拜倫，但那其實與愛情無關，而是關于走自己的路。抗拒權威，隨心而活，將其注入盡可能多的人的心中。那才是浪漫主義。 Forget the critics. Let them have their opinions. Let them publish their books and brag about them at tedious faculty parties, and let university librarians file those books away. 摒棄批判，讓人們保留各自的觀點，讓人們盡情出版書籍并在無趣的學系派對上吹噓此事，讓大學圖書管理員將這些書分門別類。 The faculty has called this class “The Romantics and Literary Theory”. I want you all to forget the second half of this sentence. There’s nothing theoretical about the Romantics. 大學將這門課命名為“浪漫主義和文學理論”，我希望你們都能忘記后半句。浪漫主義沒有理論可言。 Where true love burns, desire is love’s pure passion. It is the reflex of our earthly frame that takes its meaning from the nobler parts and translates the language of the heart. 當真愛燃燒時，欲望就是最純粹的愛。這濃縮了人類最本真的感情，并將其精華雋寫為心之語。 I am cutting myself off from the world. Footloose and fancy free. Won’t that be lonely? An island all to yourself? NO. I would populate the island with all new people. People that I actually like. Yes, but then things change. The people you thought you like turn out to be as bad as the people you left behind. Soon you’re moving to another island and so it goes on. Ad infinitum. 我要遠離這個世界，無拘無束。 你不會覺得孤單嗎？一個人的孤島。 不會。我會讓我喜歡的人都到那個島上去。 但時過境遷，那些你曾經喜歡的人終究會變成那些你所厭惡的人，那時你就得另找一塊島。周而復始，永不停歇。 I can tell within one minute of meeting someone if I want to be with them. How about me? Do you want to be with me? YES. For one more minute. Okay. You’ve got a minute. What are you gonna to do with it? 我可以在一分鐘之內分辨出我是否愿意和一個剛見面的人待在一起。 那我呢？你想和我在一起嗎？ 想。再多待一分鐘。 好，我就給你一分鐘。你打算怎么用這一分鐘？ Why are the Romantics relevant today? Honestly, they’re not. We’re teaching words. Words, but we’re not teaching meaning. I’ve got it all wrong. I can tell you about Byron and his bear, Wordsworth falling in love with his cousin, Coleridge falling in love with cocaine. I can tell you what’s behind the words from them, but I can’t tell you what’s behind those words for you. Because this class is about you learning to find your own meaning, your own voices. Go read the poems, but know this, that at this moment you are the Romantics, you are the relevant ones. Let Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth inspire you to do your thing, to go your own way. Follow your hearts, do good things, be bold. And above all else, stick it to the man. 浪漫主義和現代有何關聯？說實話，沒有任何關聯。我們只是在教詞匯。只是詞匯，但沒有詞匯中的意蘊。是我做錯了。我可以告訴你們拜倫和熊的故事，華茲華斯愛上了他的表妹，柯勒律治沉迷卡可因。我可以告訴你們這些對他們有何意義，但我無法告訴你們這些對你們有什么意義。因為這堂課是為你們而上的，是為了讓你們找到這些對你們自己的意義。去讀詩吧，但銘記一點，此時此刻你們都是浪漫主義者，你們都與此相關。讓拜倫、柯勒律治、華茲華斯來啟發你們，啟發你們做自己的事，走自己的路。聽從自己的心，做好事，活得大膽些。最重要的一點，在面對外界的權威時堅持到底。 “That is no country for old men. The young in one another’s arms, birds in the trees, those dying generations at their song.” So what’s Yeats saying here? He’s a 60-year-old man looking at young people, screwing and living, blissfully unthinking about their own mortality. Yeats knows he’s just an aged man, but his dreams are of Byzantium. Byzantium is the place he longs for. He needs to make this journey. Yeats knows that unless he makes this journey, unless he defies logic and authority, unless his soul claps hands and sings out loud, he is nothing more than a tattered coat upon a stick. “那兒可不適合老年人。年輕情侶親密無間，鳥兒棲息于樹梢，垂死之人唱響最后的挽歌。”葉芝在這想表達什么？他已年過六十，看著那些年輕人庸庸碌碌，幸福地從不考慮自身的死亡。葉芝知道自己年事已高，但他仍然夢想著拜占庭。拜占庭是他的夢之所在。他必須踏上這趟旅程。葉芝知道，他若不踏上這趟旅程，他若不與邏輯和權威對抗，他的靈魂若不拍手歌唱，他只不過是個拄著拐杖、衣衫襤褸之人。 （此處的詩歌為葉芝的《駛向拜占庭》） There’s nothing honorable in misery. 煎熬痛苦可不光榮。 I knew you would come. It’s irrational. It’s romantic. 我早知道你會來。 這根本不合理。 但這很浪漫。 You and I, we’ve only had moments, now we have time. 你我之間，曾經只有片刻短暫，但現在我們有了漫漫時光。 Carpe diem. Boff and be merry. 及時行樂，享受人生。