莎士比亚十四行诗第31首: 前任太多，如何向现任交待？

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Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead,
And there reigns love and all love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.

How many a holy and obsequious tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,
As interest of the dead, which now appear,
But things removed that hidden in thee lie.

Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give,
That due of many, now is thine alone.

Their images I loved, I view in thee,
And thou (all they) hast all the all of me.

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在以下注解中，homosexual倾向被有的学者认可，而被另外一些学者视作友情。所以到底这里是前任，还是前任朋友，见仁见智了。不过像题目那样“有弹性”并且“充满现代意义”地解读，不也挺好的嘛哈哈哈哈

Duncan Johns: The young man is universally loved, and in the congress of those who love him the lonely poet imaginatively recovers his own lost (dead) friends. (173)

Malone: ...such addresses (lovers) to men were common in Shakespeare's time, and were not thought indecorous. (255)

Booth: parts, things indicate sexual senses (183-4)

Vendler: Resurrection of Christ is the doctrine on which, in Christian literature, resurrection in any other form is based. (170)

Burrow: The dominant mood here is of a triumph over death through the friend, but there is also a faint suggestion (anticipating the jealous later in the sequence) that he poet has lost all his former lovers and thinks they are dead because they have switched their affections to the friend. (442)

31

你胸怀珍贵，因为你胸藏一切心上人，

我和他们无缘，曾以为他们全部丧生。

在你那胸腔里，爱及爱的一切可爱的品行，

都和我曾以为葬身其内的朋友共处一尊。

对死者热烈、虔诚的眷恋曾偷走

我圣洁、哀伤的泪儿如泉涌奔流，

而今回首，才明白这些过世的幽魂

不过是移居另处，安住在你的胸襟。

你庇护着我埋葬了的爱，你是孤坟，

坟内满挂着我那些过世恋人的战利品，

他们把我的一片痴心都转赠给你消受，

于是许多人共有的爱而今你独自占有。

在你的身上我看见那些情人的形象，

你是他们的全体，我的一切都是你的收藏。

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