Russian poet Pushkin's poem "If Life Deceives You" expresses a positive, optimistic and strong attitude towards life and is kind. Implicit philosophy: we should treat setbacks correctly and optimistically, be calm and firmly believe that the future is beautiful and bright.
Если жизнь тебя обманет,
Не печалься, не сердись!
В день уныния смирись:
День веселья, верь, настанет.
Сердце в будущем живет;
Настоящее уныло:
Все мгновенно, все пройдет;
Что пройдет, то будет мило.
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If life deceives you,
Don't be sad, don't be angry
Spend this sad day:
Please believe that a happy day is coming.
The heart lives in the future;
The reality is pale:
Everything is short-lived and will pass;
Everything in the past will be beautiful.
On Man by the British Pope is a huge philosophical paper written in double rhyme. It talks about human nature, human society, morality and human happiness from the creator and the universe. Its central idea is Plato's great existence chain. Everything in the universe has its place in this chain, and people are between angels and beasts. Only when people are satisfied with this position will they be happy. People should firmly believe in God, learn to see far and fully, and you will find that everything is reasonable:
All nature is just art, you don't know;
All the opportunities and directions you can't see;
All disharmony and harmony are not understood;
All evil, universal good:
Despite pride, resentment for the wrong reasons,
One fact is clear: whatever it is, it is right.
(alexander pope: On Man, to Henry St. John, lines 289-294)
The whole nature is art, but you don't understand it; /All accidents are rules, but you didn't see them clearly; /Everything is not harmonious, it is harmony that you don't understand; /Disasters everywhere are the blessings of all. /Pride is contemptible, just because it is unreasonable. Everything that exists is reasonable, but it is a clear truth. (Translated by Wang Zuoliang)
Blake often looks at problems dialectically. As can be seen from a grain of sand, the poet realized that there is a connection between things, and there is a big universe in the town:
To see a world in a grain of sand,
There is a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
Eternity will melt in an hour.
(william blake: A grain of sand)
See the world in a grain of sand, heaven in a flower, hold eternity in an hour, and infinity in the palm of your hand. (Translated by Wang Zuoliang)
Frost's poems begin with pleasure and end with wisdom. His poems with rural flavor in New England won him the title of "country philosopher". The most familiar book, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night, reveals the responsibility of the living, that is, people should finish their own things before ending their life journey (but I still have promises to keep/miles to go). The Road Not Taken expresses all kinds of "choices" that everyone has experienced with the specific choices of Koji in the forest. I thought the road without choice was "Oh, I like to be the first one to come for another day", but I was wondering how to go back to the starting point and choose the road without choice. Finally, the poet had to sigh: at the fork of the road in life, all the differences are caused by different choices (two roads are divided in a forest, and I-/I chose the one with less people,/which caused all the differences. ), quite philosophical in life. Many other poems are also full of philosophy, such as Spring Pool:
These pools, although in the forest, still reflect
The whole sky has almost no defects,
Like the flowers next to them, they are shivering with cold,
Will disappear as quickly as the flowers around them,
However, there are no streams or rivers,
But uproot it and let the dark leaves appear.
Trees in bud
Let nature darken and become a summer forest—
Make them think twice before using their powers
Wipe off, drink up, sweep away
These flowers are like water and flowers like water.
From the snow that melted yesterday.
(Robert Frost: Spring Pool)
Although the spring pool is hidden in the dense forest,/it can still reflect the flawless blue sky,/it shivers like a wild flower by the pool,/it will dry up quickly like a wild flower,/but the water in the pool will not flow into streams and rivers,/but will seep into the roots and be used by green leaves. //Trees that draw water from the pool will sprout/Sandy will be lush and leafy in summer,/But before they run out of water in the pool and dry the flowers,/Let them think twice:/This flower-like spring water and water-like flowers/were all melted by snow yesterday. (Translated by Cao Minglun)
In this poem, the pool in the forest reflects the whole sky, and the flowers beside it are shivering with cold. The pool does not flow into any stream or river, but seeps into the roots, in exchange for a lush shade, which, like the flowers next to it, will soon dry up and disappear. The pond dried up and the flowers withered, but the trees in summer were lush, which was the result of melting snow yesterday. The "snow-pool-root-forest" here constitutes a cycle, and the opposing objects have an inherent unified law. The disappearance of one thing actually becomes another form (water is sucked into the bud), which is the cycle of life and death of everything in the universe. The poet expressed a dialectical worldview from the seemingly contradictory pooling process, which actually contained some philosophies.