不只是電影——《死亡詩社》，那些金句、訓誡，和無盡的思考
2019年的第一篇，想把常規的內容放一放，分享一部非常值得回味的電影，《死亡詩社》。電影傳達的，關於熱愛、珍惜、堅持、思考，和理想與現實的較勁，給無數人帶來了啟發和感動。這無數人中也包括我。
這裡整理了4個場景，摘回那些最原本的、最戳人的句子。將感動、鼓舞、警醒、深思，喜歡、不喜歡的，留給大家各自感受。作為新年的禮物。
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13』00」
Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.
John Keating 老師與這個班級的第一節課，他帶班級來到走廊，給大家上了第一節課「抓住時間，讓你的生命與眾不同。」
Keating 借用了英國詩人Robert Herrick 的詩：
Gather ye rose but while ye may. Old time is still flying. and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
「 《勸少女們珍惜時光》及時采拮你的花蕾，舊時光一去不回，今天尚在微笑的花朵，明日便在風中枯萎。「 （有人常用杜秋娘的《金縷衣》來翻這幾句：花開堪折直須折，莫待無花空折枝。）
Keating 老師讓大家看走廊上掛著的，從前師兄們的照片。讓大家感受生命只在彈指一揮間，飛逝得比想像的快，現實比想像殘忍。（這段現實得扎心）
「They』re not that different from you are they? Same haircuts, full of hormones just like you, invincible just like you feel, the world is their oyster, they believe they are destined for great things just like many of you, their eyes full of hope just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils.」
「他們與你們沒有多大不同吧？同樣的髮型。充滿活力，和你們一樣。野心勃勃，和你們一樣。世界在他們手中，相信自己一定能成就偉大的事業，就像你們很多人一樣。他們眼中充滿希望，就像你們一樣。但他們是不是就曾經蹉跎，而錯過他們本能成就的任何事業？因為，你瞧，各位，當年的年輕人已變成了花下之塵。「
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21』00 」
Understanding poetry. Rip out the entire introduction
Keating 老師的第二課：用自己的身心，感受詩歌。用自己的身心，感受生活，感受熱情。不要輕易向約定俗成的權威低頭。
「This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your heart and soul. Armies of academics going forward measuring poetry. No! We will not have that here. No more of Mr J. Evans Pritchard. Now, my class, you will learn to think for yourselves again. You will learn to savor words and language. No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.」
「這是一場戰鬥，戰爭，受害的可能是你們的思想和靈魂。學院派在不斷向詩歌發起進攻，度量詩歌。不！我們不能答應。讓 J.埃文斯.普理查特見鬼去吧。現在，各位你們要學會自己思考。你們要學會欣賞文字和語言。不管別人怎麼告訴你，文字和想法的確能改變世界。「
「We don』t read and write poetry because it』s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.」
」我們讀詩寫詩，並不是因為它好玩。我們讀詩寫詩因為我們是人類的一員。而人類是充滿激情的。醫學、法律、商業、工程，這些是崇高的追求，支撐生命所必須。但是，詩歌、美、浪漫、愛.......這些是我們或者的意義。「
To quote from Whitman, 「O me, O life of the questions of these recurring. Of the endless trains of the faithless. Of cities filled with the foolish. What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here. That life exists and identity. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.」 What will your verse be?
」惠特曼曾寫道：自我？生命？這些問題總在不停出現。毫無信仰的人群川流不息。城市充斥這愚昧。生活其中有什麼意義？自我？生命？答案：因為你在這裡。因為生命存在並各有特性。因為偉大的戲劇在繼續，並且你可以奉獻一段。因為偉大的戲劇在繼續，並且你可以奉獻一段。你的段落會是什麼樣？「
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35』00
Strive, not yield, not regret. Dead poets society.
奮力生活，不枉此生。死亡詩社，那些詩引發的自省和教會我們的事。
Traditional opening by Society member Henry David Thoreau: 「 I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.」
「亨利梭羅的詩：我步入叢林，因為我希望生活有意義。我希望獲得深刻，汲取所有生命的精華。把非生命的一切擊潰。以免，當我生命終結，發現自己從未活過。「
Alfred Lord Tennyson 「Come my friends. It』s not too late to seek a newer world. For my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset. And though we are not now that strength which in old days moved Earth and heaven. That which we are, we are: one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,」
「阿爾佛雷德.丁尼生的詩：來吧我的朋友們。尋找一個更新的世界還為時不晚。我決心已定，要是過夕陽盡頭。儘管我們現在不再有昔日撼天動地的力量。我們依然是我們：同樣的雄心，因時間和命運而變得虛弱，但是意志堅定，去奮鬥，去探索，去發現，永不屈服。「
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41』00
Standing on the desk
永遠嘗試不同視角看事物；尋找自己的聲音，不要陷入平靜的絕望。
「I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.」
「我站在我的桌子上，是想提醒自己我們必須時刻用不用的眼光看待事物。「
「Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said,」 Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.」 Don』t be resigned to that. Break out.」
「同學們，你們必須努力尋找自己的聲音。因為你等待得越久才開始，你找到自己聲音的可能行就越小。梭羅說：大多數人都生活在平靜的絕望中。別陷入這種境地。掙脫出來。「
這是一句藏在電影中，卻挑明主題的一句話。借梭羅的詩，不能表達得更好了。特別戳心，特別震撼。
寫在最後
《死亡詩社》是一部很奇特的電影，它的每一個場景展開都夠引起一場深入的討論。有人說，它是一部關於教育方法的電影；有人說，它是一部關於堅持理想的電影。這些解讀也許都太片面。我小時候看過這部電影，可當時的感受遠沒有成年以後再看來得深刻。好電影就是這樣，反覆看，每次都有新收穫，多年以後看，又有新認識。
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