Swinburne
Between the sunset and the sea,
My lover's hands and lips caress me.
Day brings night, sweetness brings acid,
Long-term desire brings short-term joy.
Love, what have you brought?
Between the dunes and the sea?
Between the tidal line and the sea
Joy becomes sadness, sadness becomes me,
Love turns into tears, tears into fire,
The joy of death becomes a new wish,
Listening to love words in a trance, I was moved by emotion,
Between the beach and the sea.
Between the sun and the sea
Love accompanied me through the moment of love,
Then set foot on the golden waterway
He flew away and followed the sun.
I saw his footsteps coming and going,
Between Harmo and the sea.
Between the seashore and the sea,
Love covers dreams, and dreams cover me.
The first star turned two into one.
Between the rising of the moon and the sunset;
The second star sees me instead of love,
Between the coast and the sea.
(translated by Bai Fei)
Algernon charles swinburne was a famous poet and critic in Victorian England. Swinburne is an atheist. He sympathized with the Italian independence movement and the French Revolution, enthusiastically praised democracy and freedom in his poems, and edited the poems expressing revolutionary democracy into a collection of poems, Songs Before Sunrise. He has high attainments in poetic skills. His poems are rich in color and beautiful in tone, which opens up a garden of English lyric poetry and enriches the rhythm of English poetry. His main collection of poems, Poems and Songs, was once welcomed by young people at that time because of its vivid and delicate expression of love between men and women, and also caused an uproar in public opinion because of its violation of traditional etiquette.
The poem "Between the Sunset and the Sea" is selected from Swinburne's early poetic drama "ShaStella". This lyric episode is a song sung by Mary Beaton. Swinburne grew up by the sea and loved the sea since childhood. In his poems, he is full of the theme and rhythm of the sea, which makes his attackers call him "the sea monster with eight claws".
The sea, with its tranquility and depth, also has its pentium and roar, much like human love, which is continuous and deep, and occasionally raises new waves in everyone's heart. The sunset, brilliant and soft, is fascinating, but fleeting, which makes people feel sorry. How like the footsteps of magical and wonderful love, coming and going in a hurry. In Between the Sunset and the Sea, the poet takes the sunset and the sea as images to show the sweetness and pain of love step by step.
This poem seems to express my feelings when my lover and I first fell in love at the seaside. In the first paragraph, the poet first juxtaposes the kiss of the sunset and the sea with the lover's first kiss of "I", thus giving readers a huge imagination: the soft and brilliant colors of the sunset remind people of the colorful garlands of love and the tenderness between lovers. Although the sunset is beautiful, it is the last moment of the day, which makes people find the similarities between sunset and love: beautiful and fleeting, permanent and short. Thus, between the tidal line and the sea, the tidal line is sometimes high and sometimes low. The higher you rise, the lower you sink; On the beach where lovers meet, it is "happiness becomes sadness, sadness becomes me, love becomes tears, and tears become fire." The ups and downs of love are like a rough sea, which brings dreamy sweetness and unbearable bitterness. The sweeter the moment of meeting, the more bitter the separation and waiting. Only sweet love will turn into bitter tears; Only bitter tears can arouse the burning excitement and pursuit. The poet's line of sight shifts from sunset to the light and shadow left on the sea at sunset, which symbolizes that love comes and goes in a hurry, mysterious and real. As the sun sets and night falls, the dream of love covers everything again. The first star, like "I" begged, turned the moment of love into eternity, but the second star turned the eternity of love into the moment of love. This is a sea that changes forever, just like a moment of eternal love.
Swinburne's creation is deeply influenced by French symbolism poetry, especially Baudelaire. In his poems, images and rhythms are both suggestive and symbolic. The central image of this poem is "the sea", the vastness of the sea, the surging of the sea, the ebb and flow of the sea, the pain and happiness brought by love, passive waiting and active pursuit, and there are many similarities of "heterogeneity and isomorphism". The poet uses these intersections to connect the sea in nature with the most sacred emotion in his heart, and with the help of the visually perceptible image of the sea, he shows a rich, complex and changeable flow. The integration and communication between the poet and the sea has also triggered the collision and vibration between readers and the sea and poets, making people experience, grasp and cherish the bitterness and sweetness that make people sad, silent, exciting and memorable at a higher level. The sea symbolizes love, and also symbolizes the beautiful hope and pursuit in life.
This poem not only uses symbolism, but also successfully uses contrast. The image of the sea is so vivid and rich because it is set off by sunsets, tidal lines, beaches, Harmo and the coast. Sunset focuses on the comparison of time, showing the "long-term desire" and "short-term happiness" of the sea; The surging tide and splashing Harmo are fleeting, but the ebb and flow of the tide contains hope that will never die. They focus on the contrast of space, showing that "the joy of death" keeps coming to their hearts and becoming "new wishes". Under the contrast of these scenes, the happiness and pain, tranquility and change, magnanimity and unpredictability of the sea are clearly presented to people, making people realize that love, like the sea, always oscillates in happiness and pain, truth and unpredictability, reality and dreams.
This poem not only blends scenes and forms the beauty of artistic conception, but also has a beautiful and harmonious tone, which also forms the beauty of music. In rhythm, this poem adopts the rhythm of waves: repeating and changing, surging and retreating, which fully shows the dizzy feeling and mixed feelings brought by love. The beauty of artistic conception and music blend together to synthesize the charming artistic effect of this poem.