《人间词话》英译（三）

有有我之境，有无我之境。“泪眼问花花不语，乱红飞过秋千去。”“可堪孤馆闭春寒，杜鹃声里斜阳暮。”有我之境也。“采菊东篱下，悠然见南山”，“寒波澹澹起，白鸟悠悠下。”无我之境也。

有我之境，以我观物，故物皆著我之色彩。无我之境，以物观物，故不知何者为我，何者为物。古人为词，写有我之境者为多，然未始不能写无我之境，此在豪杰之士能自树立耳。<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

There is the personal state (yu-wo chih-ching) and there is the impersonal state (wu-wo chil-ching).

With tear-filled eyes I ask the flowers but they do not speak.

Red petals swirl past the swing away.

How can I bear it, shut within this lonely inn against the spring cold?

Slanting through the cuckoo’s cries the sun’s rays at dusk.

These are examples of the personal state.

I pluck chrysanthemums by the eastern fence,

Far distant appear the southern mountains.

The cold waves rise smoothly, quietly

White birds glide softly down.