This poem uses "whirlpool" as the main image, which is derived from the poetic meaning of the French folk dance "whirlpool".
As a lyric poet, Paul Faure especially sang about love and human friendship. Boys and girls all over the world join hands and unite, regardless of color, race, or nationality. If everyone dances a whirlpool, the world will be filled with love. The ode to the harmony and unity of people all over the world sung by the poet expresses the poet's beautiful ideals and optimistic mood.
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Original text:
If girls all over the world are willing to join hands,
they can dance around the sea A whirlwind dance.
If boys all over the world were willing to be sailors,
they could use their boats to build a beautiful bridge over the water.
At that time, people can dance a whirlwind around the world,
If all the boys and girls in the world are willing to join hands.
Paul Faure was called by Dai Wangshu "the simplest, most glorious and poetic poet among the late French Symbolists". In this poem, Paul Faure uses fairy tale-like imagination to show the idea of ??"universal world".
Before he edited "Poetry and Prose" in the ten years from 1905 to 1914, he was mainly a theater owner, playwright, and symbolist drama movement. He has been active in the Paris theater scene since early on.
In 1890, he founded an "Art Theater" to stage the poetry and dramas of Symbolists such as Maeterlinck and Mallarmé, in opposition to the naturalism of the "Free Theater" at that time. Despite widespread debate that such a play was impossible to stage, he finally achieved an astonishing success. In 1912, he won the glorious title of "Poetry King".