Stray Birds

by Rabindranath Tagore, 拉宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔

"Stray Birds" contains ideas on nature, man, and his environment as may be entertained by a man sitting by a window where the stray birds of summer sing and fly away. These short, sometimes merely one-line poems are often just an image or the distillation of a thought, but they stay in the mind and do not fly away as easily as the birds. The author, Rabindranath Tagore, was a Nobel laureate for literature (1913) as well as one of India's greatest poets and the composer of independent India's national anthem, as well as that of Bangladesh. He wrote successfully in all literary genres, but was first and foremost a poet, publishing more than 50 volumes of poetry. He was a Bengali writer who was born in Calcutta and later traveled around the world. He was knighted in 1915, but gave up his knighthood after the massacre of demonstrators in India in 1919.

Genres: Poetry, Classics, India, Philosophy, Literature, Nonfiction, Indian Literature

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1913

About the author

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....

Reviews

[Su]

一个晚上边读边写，才读到第十首。心中波涛汹涌了好几回合。

读泰戈尔的诗，需要想象力，喜欢他的诗，也必然是浪漫之人。他的诗是干净的，大多与自然有关，太阳月亮星星天空花草树木鸟虫山川河流沙漠泪水微笑声音年华。他创造的是一个理想超现实而又美丽可及的世界。读他的诗，不会在他的语句孑然而止，而是开始：在他短短的几句话开始联想自己的世界；他打开了一扇窗，让你抚摸过去，亲近自己的心，直面自己的欲望，你变成他的诗，赤裸裸，干净，不沾一点尘埃；你感动了，不是他的诗，而是你能坦然的面对自己，被自己打动。

读他的诗，你的心必然要安静了，才会读懂，因为他的诗的世界是没有吵闹的。读他的诗，需要耐心，是修心养性的过程；读他的诗，是没有边界的，你尽管大胆地去想象，最好能记下来；读他的诗，需要些历练，才能知道那近在眼前的为什么不可触手可及；读他的诗，没有统一答案，你的理解和感受是独一无二的，是珍贵的。

我第一次那么认真地读泰戈尔的诗，才意识到过去的自己是多么的浅薄。只会人云亦云的喜欢。到了三十岁，我才知道到诗真正的伟大之处在于无穷的想象力。我很庆幸，今天，我能读懂诗一二。

[saya]

这本书的评分实在有点夸张，与其说是诗，其实只是只是日常所思所想记录下来拼凑成了一本小说。和思想录差不多，区别是这本是作者主动出版的，这么想着我就想打3星，忍住是因为还好篇幅不长。想必泰戈尔是个出门带小本本的人，这里面的句子你不能说他不好，但其实稍微有点思想的人刻意记录几年都能出这么一本书，泰戈尔也只是稍微多点文采和创意，可倒也没那么优秀。而这种形式实在是让我想起10岁以前常读的名人名言合集，读着好累。适合少年来读吧，一旦有点阅历你会发现这些东西就算你自己想不出，也在各种地方读过一堆类似的了。。

[Ming Kahnawake]

译者钟书峰
类型诗歌
推荐四星
多年以后重读际，早不复少年时。再也没有当初那份激动，尽管一些个中仍然让我感叹，还是没了少年时代一首一首地抄成手抄本的动力，本子和少年热血一起不知去处。
可惜这个译者的翻译实在有些受不了，幸好是带着原英文版的，大家纷纷在微读里写下自己的译文。泰戈尔的英文诗并不难懂，直接读效果最好。但是本书翻译缺少诗意，随意更改语序，真的是明智的做法吗？不管译者如何声明自己竭尽所能，不行就是不行。诗歌这东西，还是得由内行翻译更妥。
书中所附译者谈中国翻译界现状倒全是事实。译作已经是烫手山芋，基本都是靠爱发电，加上出版社只图赚钱，水平已经惨不忍睹。凑合看吧。

[Vera]

经典

[Xq Huang]

冯必乐成功领导了西门子的变革，使西门子成为了一家真正意义上的全球化公司。全球化公司并不仅是在全球卖出了你的产品，而是经得起全球各地公认规则的检验，当然产品具有竞争力这是最基本的。然而成功的转型并未让冯必乐受到尊敬，而是被西门子扫地出门，令人唏嘘不已。最可怕的是在这个健忘的世界里，一丝一毫的失误却会被人永久地记住。

[Yvette]

简单朴素的语言，却有着触动心灵的力量。也只有在泰戈尔的笔下，文字拥有了灵魂。

[Carpenter Liu]

“使生如夏花之绚烂，死如秋叶之静美。”