Glimpses 驚豔

Seville 塞維利亞

Professor Hui Cheuk Kuen, Desmond (許焯權教授)

Seville is the capital city of Andalusia, Spain. It has a rich culture and history, with Roman and Muslim origins. In the 18th Century, it became the opera capital: the city of Figaro and Don Giovanni of Mozart, Fidelio of Beethoven, the Barber of Rossini, and Carmen of Bizet. I have come here twice, and what impresses me most, apart from the architecture, is the bright violet flowering tree seen everywhere around the city – Jacaranda.
“The purple breeze / Sings through the jacaranda / And wings away, / Leaving the shadows to flower.”
The Jacaranda, by Lucy Eddy (1918)

Source: Poetry (February 1918), Vol. XI, No. V, p. 249 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/issue/70382/february-1918


塞維利亞是西班牙自治區安達魯西亞的首都，有源自希臘羅馬古典傳統及穆斯林傳統的豐富歷史與文化，十八世紀時，這裡成為西方歌劇之都，是莫札特的費加羅和唐·喬萬尼的城市，也是貝多芬的費德里奧，羅西尼的理髮師，和比才的卡門的故鄉。我到過這裡兩次，但除了建築之外，這裡給我印象最深刻的是到處可見的鮮豔紫色的花樹藍花楹。
「紫色的微風/ 歌唱地飄過藍花楹 / 展翅而去，/ 給花兒留下了影子。」
藍花楹 露絲埃迪作 (1918)

中文作者譯。

February 27, 2015

Seville, Spain

Multicolored

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