
Chinese: 
诗歌不像音乐那样，
可以实时营造出确切的情感。
诗歌也不像电影那样，
可以实时展现出炫目的图像。
诗歌有时具有说服性，
但与口若悬河的传教士或政客却无法相提并论。
诗歌可以做到的是，
从每个人的身体与想象中出来。
而你的声音就是诗歌的载体。
我不知道一个没有诗歌的世界会是什么样子。
诗歌是我们最早的一种沟通方式。
对我来说，诗歌与语言紧密相关。
诗歌可以很抽象，也可以很写实。
它可以很科学，也可以不符合科学规律。

English: 
[MUSIC PLAYING]
PROFESSOR ROBERT PINSKY:
Poetry can't create emotion
as immediately and reliably as music.
Poetry can't present an image as
dazzling and immediate as video,
or film.
Poetry sometimes persuades, but
poetry can't persuade as forcefully
as a really skillful
preacher or politician.
What poetry can do is, come out of each
person's somatic, physical imagination.
The medium for a poem is your voice.
STUDENT 1: I don't really think that
you can imagine a world without poetry.
It's one of the oldest forms of
communication that we've had.
STUDENT 2: To me, poetry is just
built into language so tightly.
STUDENT 3: It can be abstract,
or it can be literal.
And it can be scientific, or not.
But every culture has
some way of communicating

Chinese: 
但是每一种文化都会通过类似的结构性语言进行沟通。
你的境界将被提升，
超过那些传统的、自然的与世界的联系。
你将会被去到另一个远方。
这门课并不侧重教授诗歌的分类、术语、流派。
课程将会重点关注这种艺术本身，
以及组成这门艺术的元素。
创造出一首伟大的诗篇，或是艺术品，
你不会直接朝着这个目标奔去。
你会希望从多个不同角度入手。
每一个诗人都在打造属于自己的国度、自己的语言。
我们会深入探讨Andrew Marvell，
还有Marianne Moore，
然后创造出特定的词汇。
了解一门艺术，
你不仅应该了解艺术本身为什么吸引你，

English: 
in that structured language.
PROFESSOR ROBERT PINSKY:
You're being elevated
above and beyond a conventional,
automatic relation to the world.
You're going somewhere else.
The approach of this course
is not to provide you
with a lot of classifications,
terminologies, schools.
The focus of this course will
be on the nature of the art
and the components of
the art-- as an art.
STUDENT 4: To make a really
great poem, or piece of art,
you don't just go straight
for what you're shooting at.
You actually sort of want to see
it from all the different angles.
STUDENT 5: Each poet is developing
their own country, their own language.
And then we need to take that
time to dig in to Andrew Marvell.
And to dig in to Marianne Moore.
And develop those specific idioms.
PROFESSOR ROBERT PINSKY:
To understand an art,
you have to understand not only
what the art itself appeals to you,

Chinese: 
你还要能举出在这种艺术中你自己的例子。
这门课要求学员汇编自己的诗集。
这本是我的个人诗集。
汇编诗集这个练习是我过去所有诗歌课程中
要求学生做的一件事。
我觉得这是我作为老师布置的最有效的作业。
我十分喜欢这个活动。
因为，我不用向学生灌输，
你应该喜欢诗歌，诗歌很棒。
而会对他们说，
你有什么诗？
你支持的是什么？
我总是对身边的朋友说，我满脑子都是诗歌。
我总是这样说。
你是一位工程师吧？
我是工程师。
其实，我有时会把诗歌称作一种韵律工程。
这门课欢迎任何人加入，
各行各业的人，
不同兴趣爱好的人，

English: 
but what your examples of the art are.
This course asks that everyone
compile their own anthology.
This is my personal anthology.
This anthology making is an
exercise I require of all students,
in every poetry course I've ever taught.
I think that assignment is probably
the most useful thing I feel I do,
as a teacher.
I enjoy it, as a teacher-- because,
instead of saying, hey, like poetry.
It'll be good.
I'm saying to the
students, what do you have?
What do you stand by?
STUDENT 6: I've always said to friends,
like, oh, poetry-- it's over my head.
I'm always saying that.
PROFESSOR ROBERT PINSKY:
Well, you're an engineer.
STUDENT 6: I'm an engineer.
PROFESSOR ROBERT PINSKY:
And let me tell you
that I sometimes refer to
poetry as metrical engineering.
The ambition of this course is
to be welcoming to everyone.
To people who have very
different professions from mine.
People of a range of interests.

Chinese: 
以及过去害怕诗歌的人，
抑或热爱诗歌、甚至写诗的人。
我们希望这门课能十分充实，
也能十分友好。
我是Robert Pinsky
欢迎加入“诗歌的艺术”！

English: 
People interested in poetry because
they have been intimidated by it.
Or the opposite-- people who
love poetry, maybe write it.
Our goal is to make it intellectually
rigorous, and socially welcoming,
and friendly.
I'm Robert Pinsky.
And this is-- The Art of Poetry.
