Poet: Irish William Butler Yeats
Translators: Wang Jieyuan, Ji Yi, etc.
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,
Tired of sitting by the fire, take down this book,
Read slowly and think about the gentle eyes.
Read slowly, chasing the eyes of the year.
Your eyes were once, and their shadows were deep;
Your soft eyes and deep aura.
How many people love your happy and elegant moments,
How many people like your flash in the pan,
Loving your beauty with true or false love,
Love your beauty, hypocrisy or truth.
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 by the glowing fireplace,
Keep your eyebrows down on the hood.
Whispering a little sadly, how love dies.
Meditation and muttering,
Pacing on the mountains overhead
How love dies, how to climb mountains,
Hide his face among the stars.
How to hide your face among the stars?
Creative background:
1On October 30th, 23-year-old Ye Zhi met the beautiful actress Maud Gon for the first time. She is 22 years old, the daughter of a British colonel in Ireland, and recently inherited a large fortune after her father died. Maud Gunn is not only beautiful, slim and moving, but also, after feeling the miserable situation of the Irish being oppressed by the British.
Began to sympathize with the Irish people, resolutely gave up the social life of Dublin's upper class, joined the movement for Irish national independence, and became one of the leaders. This added a special aura to Maud Gonpin in Ye Zhi's mind.
Ye Zhi fell in love with Maud Gunn at first sight, and he was crazy about him. Ye Zhi described his first meeting with Maud Gunn as follows: "She stood at the window with a mass of apple flowers beside her;" She is dazzling, like a petal full of sunshine. "
Ye Zhi loved her deeply, but she felt desperate because of her lofty image in his mind. Young Ye Zhi felt "immature and lacking in achievement". So although his love is torturing him, he hasn't confessed to her, because he is shy and because he thinks it is impossible for her to marry a poor student.
Modogan has always kept a certain distance from Ye Zhi. 189 1 In July, Ye Zhi misunderstood the information in a letter she wrote to herself, thinking that she had made a hint of love for herself, and immediately rushed to Modogan to propose for the first time. She refused, saying that she could not marry him, but hoped to keep friendship with Ye Zhi. Since then, Modogan has always rejected Ye Zhi's pursuit.
She married Major McBride, an Irish officer, in 1903. This marriage is quite tortuous, even disastrous, but she is very stubborn. Even when her marriage was completely frustrated, she still refused Ye Zhi's pursuit. Nevertheless, Ye Zhi's love for her is lifelong. Therefore, Ye Zhi's life has been filled with intractable pain for a long time.
The hopeless pain and misfortune of Ye Zhi's love for Modegang prompted Ye Zhi to write many poems about Modegang. For decades, Modogan constantly inspired Ye Zhi's creation from various angles. Sometimes it is passionate love, sometimes it is desperate resentment, and more often it is the complex tension between love and hate.