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An Ekphrastic Sonnet translated by Dmitry Bobyshev

  • Emily Bilman on Joost de Jonge's Danaë in his
  • Jan 10, 2017
  • 1 min read

DANAË

The painter juxtaposed a yellow serpentine

Curve next to a gold-streaked olive impasto

To evoke the god in her womb.

Like a sower planting wheat seeds,

The god’s seeds oozed into her body

In golden specks of pregnant light,

Delivering her from the bronze sepulchre

Of death devised by her father.

The lovers united in the dun density

Of an impasto love in brown-crimson hues,

Bolstered by painted loops of royal blue.

They begot Perseus, their warrior-son,

The slayer of the serpent-haired Medusa,

The sibilant talisman of feminine fury.

Emily Bilman @ All Rights Reserved.

Даная

Художник желтизну приноровил

к оливковому с золотом извиву

и Бога вызвал в лоне у неё.

Как сеятель пшеницы золотой

Бог заронил сияния частицу

в неё, беременную светом,

и этим спас из бронзового склепа,

что насмерть выковал её отец.

Влюблённые укрылись в бурой мгле

густыx оттенков матово румяных

с лазурными над ними завитками.

Их сын, зачатый там, Персей-воитель

убил змееволосую Медузу —

шипящий гневом женский талисман.

перевёл с английского Д. В. Бобышев

 
 
 

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