In Memory of My Father:
Australia 3

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これは、文字通りに、Brodskyの父親のことを思い出して、記念とした作品なのだろう。オーストリアが何故出て来るのか、これは詩を読んで考えることにしよう。いうまでもなく、１９８９年、ベルリンの政治的な壁の崩壊した歳の詩である。詩人にとっては、一層思いも深いことであろう。
【原文】

ﾒLooks like Iﾕve lost my slippersﾓ
came through rapt yet clear vis satellite.
And at once the receiver burst into howling ﾒAdelaide! Adelaide!ﾓ ---
into rattling and crackling, as if a shutter,
ripped off its hinges, were pounding the wall with inhuman power.

【訳】
どうも、自分のスリッパを無くしてしまったらしんだというセリフが
感情に持っていかれ攫（さら）われてしまったが、しかし凶暴なほどに強力な人工衛星を通じて、やってきた。
そして、直ぐに、受信機が、アデレード、アデレードと、大きな叫び声を際限なく反響させて、突発的に音を発して、カタコトと、割れるような音になり、それは恰もシャッターから蝶番（ちょうつがい）が壊れて外れ飛び、人間のではない力によって、壁をドンドンと打ち叩いて粉にしてしまうかのような音である。

【解釈】
1. Adelaideは、オーストラリアにある都市の名前。
2. receiverは受信機。父親はどこにいるのだろう。
【語釈】
1. rapt
Main Entry: rapt
Pronunciation: 'rapt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere to seize -- more at RAPID
1 : lifted up and carried away
2 : transported with emotion : ENRAPTURED
3 : wholly absorbed : ENGROSSED

2. vis
Main Entry: vis
Pronunciation: 'vis
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural vi疵es /'vI-"rEz/
Etymology: Latin -- more at VIM
: FORCE, POWER

2.1 vim
Main Entry: vim
Pronunciation: 'vim
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, accus. of vis strength; akin to Greek is strength, Sanskrit vaya meal, strength
: robust energy and enthusiasm

3. howl
Main Entry: howl
Pronunciation: 'hau(&)l
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English houlen; akin to Middle High German hiulen to howl
intransitive senses
1 : to emit a loud sustained doleful sound characteristic of members of the dog family
2 : to cry out loudly and without restraint under strong impulse (as pain, grief, or amusement)
3 : to go on a spree or rampage
transitive senses
1 : to utter with unrestrained outcry
2 : to drown out or cause to fail by adverse outcry -- used especially with down (howled down the speaker)


4. rip
Main Entry: 1rip
Pronunciation: 'rip
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): ripped; rip疳ing
Etymology: probably from Flemish rippen to strip off roughly
transitive senses
1 a : to tear or split apart or open b : to saw or split (wood) with the grain
2 : to slash or slit with or as if with a sharp blade
3 : to hit sharply (ripped a double to left field)
4 : to utter violently : spit out (ripped out an oath)
5 : CRITICIZE, PUT DOWN
intransitive senses
1 : to become ripped : REND
2 : to rush headlong (ripped past second base)
synonym see TEAR

5. pound
Main Entry: 4pound
Function: verb
Etymology: alteration of Middle English pounen, from Old English punian
transitive senses
1 : to reduce to powder or pulp by beating
2 a : to strike heavily or repeatedly b : to produce with or as if with repeated vigorous strokes -- usually used with out (pound out a story on the typewriter) c : to inculcate by insistent repetition : DRIVE (day after day the facts were pounded home to them -- Ivy B. Priest)
3 : to move along heavily or persistently (pounded the pavements looking for work)
intransitive senses
1 : to strike heavy repeated blows
2 : PULSATE, THROB (my heart was pounding)
3 a : to move with or make a heavy repetitive sound b : to work hard and continuously -- usually used with away