年轻时,第一次读到美国伟大诗人惠特曼的《草叶集》,书中最短的一首诗《给老年》,虽然只有一行:“从你,我看到了那在入海处逐渐宏伟的扩大并展开的河口”,但它高度的概括力和巨大的容量,却深深地震撼了我。几十年中,这首诗总使我难以忘怀。如今,当我进入老年,重读这首诗,觉得更为凝重,越发引起我更为深切的感悟,仿佛一条雄浑 When I was a young man, I read for the first time the “grass leaves” of Whitman, the great poet in the United States. The shortest poem in the book, “To the Old,” though only one line: “From you, I saw the magnificent The expansion and expansion of the estuary ”, but its high degree of generality and huge capacity, but deeply shocked me. For decades, this poem always made me unforgettable. Today, as I enter old age and reread this poem, I feel even more dignified and more and more arouse my deeper sentiment, as if a powerful