Christina Rossetti (UK)
All his canvases have the same face,
The same image, sitting or walking or leaning against the window,
We found her hiding behind the curtain,
The mirror reflects how lovely she is.
Sometimes it is a queen, shining all over,
Sometimes it's an unknown girl among the green leaves,
Or saints or angels-but every portrait
They all mean the same thing, neither increasing nor decreasing.
The painter admired her beauty day and night,
She is also looking forward to the painter, sincere and enthusiastic.
Bright as the moon, happy as the sun,
Instead of languishing and dying in waiting and mourning.
Not like her, but like a moment of hope,
Not like her, but like her to enter his dream.
(translated by Bai Fei)
Christina Rossetti, sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is a famous English poetess. Her poems are sad and simple, lyrical and mysterious, with strong religious feelings and sad and symbolic colors. Virginia Woolf, a famous British writer of stream of consciousness in the 20th century, commented: "Among the English poetesss, Christina Rossetti?? Ranked first. She sings like a robin and sometimes like a nightingale. " This shows her position and influence in English poetry.
In a painter's studio, the poet is writing about his brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Dante rossetti is a painter and a famous poet. His paintings are on a par with his poems. Dante rossetti is deeply in love with his wife Elizabeth Cidell. She not only praised her in poems, but also described her life in the studio. She is everything in his life, and her appearance has ruled his artistic career for 30 years. He painted "the same face", although he wears different clothes and poses differently. This poem is the poet's reflection on the love life of his brother, painter dante rossetti.
This poem sings the pure and eternal love between him and her. Dante rossetti is very fond of Elizabeth Cidell, who is good at poetry and painting. She loves her passionately and sincerely. As described in the poem: "He has the same face and image on all canvases, sitting or walking or leaning against the window". The painter draws not others or anything else, but "the same face" and "the same image", regardless of her posture, whether she is sitting, walking or leaning against the window. What a sincere and deep love this is! She is the whole content of his life, and the power of love drives him to do it day after day and year after year, depicting "the same face" and "the same image" simply and affectionately. This is caused by the power of love.
Why does the painter love her so much? Because she is "sometimes a queen, shining all over, sometimes an unknown girl among the green leaves, or a saint or an angel", "how lovely she is". This is why the painter loves her. "She" is the queen, saint and angel in his mind, and it is a symbol of all his goodness. He wants to keep her beautiful image forever because he loves her so much. He can't live without her. No wonder dante rossetti was in great pain after Elizabeth Cidell died a year after her marriage. He sacrificed all his poems for his wife. In the studio, he "enjoyed her beauty day and night". She is the source of strength, making him forget all about eating and sleeping and never stop.
Love is the collision of two sincere hearts. Similarly, she is deeply attached to him: "She also looks forward to the painter, sincere and warm, as bright as the moon and as happy as the sun." She is the sun, the moon, the source of his art and gives him unlimited artistic inspiration. He has her, just like entering a fairyland, full of hope.
Christina Rossetti?? Moved by the love between her brother and Elizabeth Cidell, she wrote this poem affectionately and praised their love. At the same time, this poem also entrusts her own yearning and pursuit of pure love. This poem is not sad, but full of longing for a happy life, which makes people admire it after reading it.