原文
"I should rather call it a picture," said Jane. "A poem is lines and
verses."
"Oh dear me, no." Anne shook her head with its fluffy wild cherry coronal positively. "The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU, Jane. The real poem is the soul within them . . . and that beautiful bit is the soul of an unwritten poem. It is not every day one sees a soul . . . even of a poem."
語彙など
- line:詩の1行
- verse:詩の一行,詩の節
- dear me:まあ
- fluffy:ふわふわした
- wild cherry:セイヨウミザクラ
- coronal:花冠,花環
- positively:きっぱりと
- outward:外側の
- garment:衣服
- ruffle:フリル
- flounce:襞飾り
- bit:小片