Poemas en inglés

Las literaturas de Norteamérica y el Reino Unido son muy ricas en contenido. En este artículo encontrarás poemas en inglés que te mostrarán las tradiciones culturales y literarias de estas regiones y además te ayudarán a enriquecer tu vocabulario.

Poemas en inglés: Literatura Británica

Mucho de los poemas en inglés de este tipo de literatura están escritos en inglés antiguo. En este artículo verás las traducciones al inglés moderno.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth

Flee from the crowd, and dwell with truthfulness,

Let your thing suffice, though it be small;

Hoarding brings hatred, climbing fickleness,

Praise brings envy, and wealth blinds overall;

Savour no more than ‘tis good that you recall;

Rule well yourself, who others advise here;

And truth shall deliver you, have no fear.

El máximo exponente de los poemas en inglés es William Shakespeare, a continuación uno de sus sonetos más importantes.

Sonnet V

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,

Will play the tyrants to the very same

And that unfair which fairly doth excel;

For never-resting time leads summer on

To hideous winter, and confounds him there;

Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,

Beauty o’er-snowed and bareness every where:

Then were not summer’s distillation left,

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,

Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft,

Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:

But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,

Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

Un importante escritor de poemas en inglés que es originario de Irlanda, es Oscar Wilde:

A Fragment

Beautiful star with the crimson lips

And flagrant daffodil hair,

Come back, come back, in the shaking ships

O’er the much-overrated sea,

To the hearts that are sick for thee

With a woe worse than mal de mer-

O beautiful stars with the crimson lips

And the flagrant daffodil hair. –

O ship that shakes on the desolate sea,

Neath the flag of the wan White Star,

Thou bringest a brighter star with thee

From the land of the Philistine,

Where Niagara’s reckoned fine

And Tupper is popular-

O ship that shakes on the desolate sea,

Neath the flag of the wan White Star.

Poemas en inglés: Literatura Norteamericana

Emily Dickinson:

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

“Hope” is the thing with feathers—

That perches in the soul—

And sings the tune without the words—

And never stops—at all—

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—

And sore must be the storm—

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm—

I’ve heard it in the chillest land—

And on the strangest Sea—

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb—of Me.

Junto con Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman es uno de los poetas más importantes de Estados Unidos en toda su historia.

A Hand-Mirror

HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)

Outside fair costume–within ashes and filth,

No more a flashing eye–no more a sonorous voice or springy step;

Now some slave’s eye, voice, hands, step,

A drunkard’s breath, unwholesome eater’s face, venerealee’s flesh,

Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous,

Joints rheumatic, bowels clogged with abomination,

Blood circulating dark and poisonous streams,

Words babble, hearing and touch callous,

No brain, no heart left–no magnetism of sex; 10

Such, from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence,

Such a result so soon–and from such a beginning!

Para conocer más sobre los mejores poetas y poemas en inglés puedes visitar la siguiente página. En ella encontrarás las biografías y obras más importantes de cada uno.