[Irish] Ye Zhi
When you are old, white-haired and sleepy, please take this book of poems down and recite it slowly, recalling the softness of your eyes and their quiet shadows in the past;
How many people love your happy youth and worship your beauty, hypocrisy or sincerity, but only one person loves your pilgrim soul and the painful wrinkles on your aging face; I hung my head and whispered sadly about the passing of love by the burning fire. The lost love has now entered the mountains, hiding its blush among the dense stars.
When the poet wrote this poem, the object he loved was young, with a beautiful face and charm. People often say, "Which girl is not good at love and which boy is not good at love." Throughout the ages, love always seems to be associated with youth and beauty. When people are bathed in the glory of love, there is only the present in their minds, and there is always a hidden desire to refuse time, change and turn the moment into eternity. However, the poet is determined to travel far away just to visit, thinking of the girl's old age and imagining her white-haired and rickety body. Telling a girl who is enjoying the fruits of youth about her twilight years is like telling a newborn child that he must die. This is cruel, but it is an irresistible natural law. The poet wrote this not only to tell her the "truth", but to express his love for her in this way. The poet seems to be a loner, watching from a distance, but clinging, loving this admired girl and giving her his unique but truly precious love, because others only love her true love or false love face, and the unique poet loves her noble soul. Beauty is easy to get old, but youth is hard to stay, but the noble soul and inner beauty of a girl will last forever in the passage of time, just like wine, the longer it is hidden, the more mellow it will be, so the poet's love can transcend time and external beauty. This love poem is unique, and its uniqueness comes from the poet's unique and sincere feelings. Without this kind of emotion, deliberately being original will only make people feel artificial. Therefore, this poem is not so much an imaginary description of the girl's twilight years as an expression of the poet's true feelings for the girl and the fleeting years. In this sense, it is the sincere feelings of sadness and hopelessness that overflow from the poem that move us. (Feifei)
Ye Zhi. Irish.
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