<Wondering and Wandering in John Ashbery’s poem : Just Walking Around> By Chi Keung Tang

<Wondering and Wandering in John Ashbery’s poem : Just Walking Around> By Chi Keung Tang

Just walking around is about what is the right thing to do. Just right. Nothing wrong.

John is philosophical and religious at the moment of inventing the poem: Just Walking Around. His stream of consciousness of creation is thinking about what is the right thing to do. In other words, it is about “Not” and “Left”.

“Left” a place is sorrow. “Not” in there is wonder. Though the poem seems without sorrow and wonder, it doesn’t make sense if you just read it without sorrow and wonder.

Is it a walk without aim? Is it only a walk of wandering? What do you think? Be sure. That is more about “wonder” than “wander”. Wandering in the world is wondering in the world. Don’t you agree?

Whether you agree or not doesn’t matter. What matters is what matters. For John Ashbery, this poem is about the rhyme and rhythm of a world of wonder of a man wandering.

Just nothing more to add. Help me learn more by things of fitness, efficiency, purpose, etc. mentioned in the poem: Just Walking Around.

《在約翰·阿什貝利的詩作〈正是在散散步〉中的沉思與漫步》 作者：鄧志強 (Chi Keung Tang)

《正是在散散步》（Just Walking Around）這首詩，談論的是關於什麼才是對的事。剛剛好的對。沒有任何錯。

約翰在創作出《正是在散散步》這首詩的當下，正處於一種哲學與宗教式的狀態中。他創作時的意識流，正思考著什麼才是對的事。換句話說，這首詩是關於「不/不在」（Not）與「離開/留下」（Left）。

「離開」（Left）一個地方是種悲傷；而「不在」（Not）那裡則帶來了沉思與好奇。雖然這首詩表面上看起來不帶有悲傷與好奇，但如果你讀它時不帶著悲傷與好奇，那是讀不通的。

這是一場沒有目的的漫步嗎？這僅僅是一場漫無目的的徘徊（Wandering）嗎？你是怎麼想的？請務必確定。這其實更關乎於「沉思/好奇」（Wonder），而非「徘徊/漫遊」（Wander）。在世界中漫步徘徊，即是在世界中沉思好奇。你難道不同意嗎？

你同不同意並不重要。重要的是那些真正重要的事。對約翰·阿什貝利而言，這首詩是關於一個在世上漫步徘徊的人，其充滿沉思好奇的世界裡所擁有的韻律與節奏。

就是這樣，沒有更多想補充的了。