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[스크랩] [재미나고 좋은영시81]Oxymorons by William Matthews

엔비53 2016. 9. 29. 12:01

 



Oxymorons


by William Matthews

 


Summer school, and jumbo shrimp, of course.
Friendly fire, famous poet, common sense,
and, until very recently, safe sex.
Blind date, sure thing, amicable divorce.

Also there's loyal opposition,
social security, deliberate speed.
How about dysfunctional family?
Eyes blackened, hearts crushed, the damn thing functions.

Some things we say should coat our tongues with ash.
Drug-Free School Zone? No way: it's our money
our children toke, snort and shoot up while we
vote against higher property taxes.

Want a one-word oxymoron? Prepay.
Money's—forgive me—rich in such mischief:
trust officer, debt service, common thief
these phrases all want to have it both ways

and sag at the middle like decrepit beds.
Religious freedom—doesn't that sound good?
And some assisted living when we're old
and in our cryptic dreams the many dead

swirl like a fitful snow. We'll wake and not
think of our living wills or property.
We'll want some breakfast. Our memories
will be our real estate, all that we've got.


 

번역은 추후에...




2016년 9월 18일 울동네 놀이터 옆에서...

 

가을은 풍성한 수확의 계절이며

그리고 죽음을 준비하는 시기이지만,

그 이유는 봄에 새로 태어날 생명을 위한다는 것을

우리는 잘 알고 있다.


생명과 죽음, 아주 상반된 두 사건의 가을에

위의 영시가 새롭게 다가 왔다.




Oxymoron(복수: oxymora)은 두개 이상의 상반되거나 어울리지 않는 단어의 조합을 의미한다.

옥시모론은 쓰는 목적은 독자들이나 시청자들에게 드라마틱한 요소를 제공하고자 하거나,

혹은 독자들이 상반된 문구를 읽고 잠시 멈추어서 생각하게 만들기도 하고,

그래서 파라독스들로 하여금 독자들의 관심을 끌기도 하고, 즐겁게 해 주기 위해서 사용된다.


위의 시에서 예를 들면, Summer school (방학중인 여름과 학교)

Jumbo shrimp (크다는 의미의 jumbo 와 shrimp는 새우이면서 작고 보잘것 없다라는 뜻)

Friendly Fire (친하다는 뜻의 friendly 와 살상무기의 뜻인 Fire)

Famous Poet (예나 지금이나 유명한 시인은 아주 극소수임)



이 재미난 시에 나오는 옥시모론 외에

자주 쓰이는 옥시모라를 뽑아 보았습니다.


  1. "absent presence"
    (Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney)
  2. alone together
  3. awful good
  4. "beggarly riches"
    (Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne)
  5. bitter sweet
  6. "brisk vacancy"
    ("Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery)
  7. cheerful pessimist
  8. civil war
  9. clearly misunderstood
  10. "comfortable misery"
    (One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz)
  11. conspicuous absence
  12. cool passion
  13. crash landing
  14. cruel kindness
  15. "darkness visible"
    (Paradise Lost by John Milton)
  16. deafening silence
  17. deceptively honest
  18. definite maybe
  19. deliberate speed
  20. devout atheist
  21. dull roar
  22. eloquent silence
  23. even odds
  24. exact estimate
  25. extinct life
  26. "falsely true"
  27. festive tranquility
  28. found missing
  29. freezer burn
  30. friendly takeover
  31. genuine imitation
  32. good grief
  33. growing smaller
  34. guest host
  35. historical present
  36. humane slaughter
  37. icy hot
  38. idiot savant
  39. ill health
  40. impossible solution
  41. intense apathy
  42. joyful sadness
  43. jumbo shrimp
  44. larger half
  45. "lascivious grace"
    (Sonnet 40 by William Shakespeare)
  46. lead balloon
  47. "liquid marble"
    (Poetaster by Ben Jonson)
  48. living dead
  49. living end
  50. living sacrifices


  1. loosely sealed
  2. loud whisper
  3. loyal opposition
  4. magic realism
  5. "melancholy merriment"
    (Don Juan by Lord Byron)
  6. militant pacifist
  7. minor miracle
  8. negative growth
  9. negative income
  10. old news
  11. one-man band
  12. only choice
  13. openly deceptive
  14. open secret
  15. original copy
  16. overbearingly modest
  17. paper tablecloth
  18. paper towel
  19. peaceful conquest
  20. plastic glasses
  21. plastic silverware
  22. poor health
  23. pretty ugly
  24. properly ridiculous
  25. random order
  26. recorded live
  27. resident alien
  28. sad smile
  29. same difference
  30. "scalding coolness"
    (For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)
  31. seriously funny
  32. shrewd dumbness
  33. silent scream
  34. small crowd
  35. soft rock
  36. "The Sound of Silence"
    (song by Paul Simon)
  37. static flow
  38. steel wool
  39. student teacher
  40. "sweet sorrow"
    (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)
  41. terribly good
  42. theoretical experience
  43. "transparent night"
    ("When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman)
  44. true fiction
  45. True Lies
    (movie directed by James Cameron)
  46. unbiased opinion
  47. unconscious awareness
  48. upward fall
  49. wise fool
  50. working vacation



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