Arts Universe and Philology

Arts Universe and Philology
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Κυριακή 15 Ιανουαρίου 2023

Τζων Μπέρρυμαν, «Παραιτείται». John Berryman, “ He Resigns”

Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Death and the Maiden (1915), oil on canvas, 150 x 180 cm, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria. Wikimedia Commons.


Τα γηρατειά, και οι θάνατοι, και τα φαντάσματα

 Εκείνη τώρα πια καθόλου

 δεν με νοιάζεται. Πλήθος

 οι τύψεις έρχονται και άδειο με βρίσκουν.

 

Δεν νομίζω πως αυτό θ’ αλλάξει.

Δεν θέλω ούτε πράγμα

Ούτε πρόσωπο, ξένο ή γνώριμο.

 

Νομίζω πως ποτέ ξανά

δεν θα τραγουδήσω παρά μονάχα

τώρα μία κι έξω. Πρέπει ν’ αρχίσω

 να ζω μ’ ένα άχρηστο κρανίο

 πάνω από μια καρδιά κενή.

Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Landscape with Ravens (1911), oil on canvas, 95.8 × 89 cm, Die Sammlung Leopold, Vienna, Austria. Wikimedia Commons.

Μετάφραση: Γιάννης Λειβαδάς

“He Resigns”

Anonymous, Funerary Portrait of a Woman ‘Isidora’ (c 100 – 110 CE), encaustic on panel, Getty Villa, Los Angeles. By Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup from Centennial, CO, USA (Getty Villa – Collection Uploaded by Marcus Cyron), via Wikimedia Commons.


Age, and the deaths, and the ghosts.

Her having gone away

in spirit from me. Hosts

of regrets come & find me empty.

 

 I don't feel this will change.

 I don't want any thing

 or person, familiar or strange.

 I don't think I will sing

 

any more just now;

ever. I must start

to sit with a blind brow

above an empty heart.


Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Penitent Mary Magdalene (1640), oil, dimensions not known, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.

Πηγές: https://pickmeuppoetry.org/he-resigns-by-john-berryman/ - https://popaganda.gr/art/paretite-tou-tzon-berriman/