I recently read a poem about love written by him, called Endless Love. This poem combines the love of the past, present and future, and sublimates love. The poet said that all love will be like a river flowing into time, which will never end, "in one life after another, in one era after another, forever". The original text is as follows:
I seem to have loved you in countless forms and countless times.
Life after life, life after life.
My heart bound by spells has made a necklace of songs.
You wear it around your neck as a gift in various forms.
Life after life, life after life.
Every time I hear the ancient chronicle of love, its ancient pain,
This is an old story about separation or reunion.
When I stare at the past, you finally appear.
The light covered with Polaris penetrates the darkness of time;
You have become an image that will be remembered forever.
You and I float on the stream brought from the source.
At the center of time, one person loves another.
We play with millions of lovers and share the same
Shy and sweet meeting, equally sad tears of parting-
Old love, but the shape is always updated.
Today it piled up at your feet, and it found its end in you.
The past and eternal love of mankind:
Universal happiness, universal sadness, universal life,
All the memories of love merge with our only love-
? And the songs of poets of all ages.
When reading English poetry, there are not too many new words, but the difficulty lies in understanding the meaning of the poem. In reading, I summed up some points that need attention:
1, the meaning of a word should be understood in context as far as possible. For example, this poem is interpreted as "accumulation" in the dictionary, which is difficult to understand only from the literal meaning. So I talked about the renovation of love in the past in combination with the previous sentence, so I understand that the meaning of the previous sentence and this poem should be "the renovation of love yesterday; New love comes to your feet and melts into your soul. " This makes the context more coherent. Of course, you can also have your own understanding. I think it is no problem to translate according to your own imagination.
2. Inverted or even omitted verbs and prepositions will appear in poetry. If you don't read well, you can adjust the word order appropriately. For example, in the penultimate line of the poem, "Today it heals at your feet, and it finds its end in you, the past and eternal love of all:" is used here. It can be adjusted to "Today, all people's past and eternal love heals at your feet, and it finds its end in you." The author uses inverted sentences to emphasize that the two sentences after the colon are "the love of all people in the past and in the future" The last poem is also upside down, just inserting "the song of every poet in the past and forever." And adjust it to "all the memories of love and the songs of every poet, the past and forever are integrated with our love."
3. In order to help understand the background of poetry, you can read some articles and books that introduce the author.
Stunned by a spell; Fascinated; Fascinated; At a loss.
A spell; A spell; Magic; Attraction and charm for a period of time (usually in a short time); muddledness
Bind: past tense and past participle of bind? Be bound (by sth)? Be bound by (sth)
Old Testament
Dressed? Dress neatly; Cover clothes with another metal (clot past tense and past participle)
Perforated; Keen; Sharp; Touch; Melting perforation; Perforation; Moved; Insight (piercing form) is the ing form of verbs in poetry, which means piercing action.
The poem "wearing the light of Polaris penetrates the darkness of time" can be translated as "wearing the light of Beidou to break through the darkness"
Reading this poem, if you don't know Tagore's love history, you will simply think that it was written by someone in love. Knowing the story of him and his teacher, we will understand that in the poet's heart, love is always a fairy tale.
Perhaps it is because this feeling of being at arm's length is more inseparable, so the poet imagines his lover as a bright big dipper to comfort him. Even after a painful separation, he relaxed the term of love to the future with an optimistic attitude. He imagined that their love merged with all the love in the world. He comforted himself and said, "Have people in love never experienced these pains?" .
He took his lover to a beautiful world like a guide, where they experienced the love of the whole world and heard all the love hymns.
After reading this poem, you will feel suddenly enlightened. It turns out that love can also be enlarged and elongated in the quadrant of time and space. When we are hurt in love, reading it helps us to come out optimistically; While we are enjoying love, we should also read it to make the poet's hymn reverberate.