Author: William Butler Yeats
Time: 1893
When you are old, when you are old.
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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?
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1June 86513 ~1June 5438+1October 28, 939), also known as "Ye Zhi" and "Yates", is an Irish poet, playwright, essayist and famous mystic. Influenced by romanticism, aestheticism, mysticism, symbolism and metaphysical poetry, Ye Zhi's poetry has formed its own unique style.
Ye Zhi's art represents the epitome of English poetry's transition from tradition to modernity. Ye Zhi's early works have the gorgeous style of romanticism, and he is good at creating an absurd atmosphere. 1893' s collection of essays "Dusk in Celtic" belongs to this style. However, after entering the unquestionable era, under the influence of modernist poet Pound and others, especially under the influence of Irish nationalist political movement that he experienced personally, Ye Zhi's creative style has undergone more intense changes, which is closer to modernism.
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