When you are old, when you are old.
William Butler Yeats, William Butler Yeats
When you are old, gray-haired and sleepy, when you are old, gray-haired and sleepy,
Take a nap by the fire, take down this book, sit by the fire, take down this book,
I read slowly, and dreamed of the soft eyes I read slowly, and dreamed of the eyes of that year.
Your eyes were once, and their shadows were deep; Your soft eyes and deep aura.
How many people love your happy moments, how many people love your short-lived figure,
Love your beauty with false or true love, love your beauty with false or true love,
But there is one person who loves your pilgrim soul. Only one person loved your pilgrim heart.
Love the sadness on your aging face; Love the scars of years on your sad face.
Bend down the glowing railing, bend down the drooping eyebrows,
Whispering, a little sad, how love escapes from meditation and muttering,
And packed up on the mountains overhead, how love passed away and how it set foot on the mountains,
Hide his face among the stars. How to hide your face among the stars?
1. Background:
When You Are Old is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1893. This is a passionate and sincere love poem dedicated by Ye Zhi to his girlfriend Maud Gunny. The language of poetry is concise, but the emotion is rich and true.
The poet used a variety of artistic expressions. Through in-depth analysis of the artistic expression techniques used by the poet in his poems, such as imaginary imagination, comparison and contrast, image emphasis and symbolic sublimation, the poet's faithful love for his girlfriend is reproduced. It reveals the insurmountable distance between real love and ideal love.
2. Appreciate:
This love poem is unique, and its uniqueness comes from the poet's unique and sincere feelings. Without this kind of emotion, deliberately being original will only make people feel artificial.
Therefore, this poem is not so much an imaginary description of the girl's twilight years as an expression of the poet's true feelings for the girl and the fleeting years. In this sense, it is the sincere feelings of sadness and hopelessness that overflow from the poem that move us.
3. Introduction to the author:
William Butler Yeats (1865 ~ 1939) was born in Dublin on June 6, 1965. Studied painting at the Metropolitan Academy of Fine Arts in Dublin, 1887 began to specialize in poetry creation. 1939 65438+1October 28th, died in Locbruner, southern France.