Stars
Author: Edith Irene S?dergran
Translator: North Island
When night falls,
I stand on the steps and listen;
Stars are swarming in the garden,
And I am standing in the dark,
Listen, a star is falling!
Don't walk barefoot on this grass.
My garden is full of fragments of stars.
Extended information:
Appreciation of the original text:
The Star is a vague poem, and the whole poem shows rich imagination. The poet uses a garden as a metaphor for the night sky and a bee as a metaphor for the stars, which seems to be an unreasonable metaphor. In fact, this expression is in line with the author's inner performance, and the garden is full of stars.
Author's experience:
The author of this poem, Edith Irene S?dergran, is a famous Swedish poetess in Finland. Sodergeland is also one of the most outstanding explorers of Swedish literature and Finnish literature, one of the pioneers of Nordic modernist literature, and the most admired one. She was deeply influenced by French symbols, German expressions and Russian Three Principles, and found evidence from her poems.
She published only four poems in her life, and died of tuberculosis and malnutrition at the age of 31. She was not recognized by readers and literary circles when she was alive, but later people discovered the literary value of her works. Now, Edith S?dergran is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of Nordic literature. So far, she still influences many poets, especially Swedish poets.