Ye Zhi's poetry collection When You Are Old: I hid the roses behind me, and the wind blew the flowers away. From then on, I gave them to myself, I rode to freedom, and I never said hello to them again. No matter how many people you read, no one is like me.
It means hiding the beautiful yearning in your heart behind you. When facing the reality, the beautiful yearning will fall with the flowers. From then on, the beautiful scenery presented itself, riding a horse to meet the beautiful scenery and yearning for freedom. Everyone will meet beautiful people or things, but in the face of reality, we still have to be brave enough to bow our heads. In this way, we will keep the beauty in our hearts and set ourselves free.
When You Are Old is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1893. This is a passionate and sincere love poem, which was dedicated by Ye Zhi to his friend Maud Gunny. The language of poetry is concise, but the emotion is rich and true. The poet used a variety of artistic expressions.
Through in-depth analysis of the artistic expression techniques used by the poet in his poems, such as imaginary imagination, comparison and contrast, image emphasis and symbolic sublimation, the poet's loyal love for Maud Gunny is reproduced. It reveals the insurmountable distance between real love and ideal love.
About the author when you are old:
Ye Zhi's early works still have gorgeous romantic style, and he is good at creating a fantastic atmosphere. For example, his prose collection "Celtic Dawn" published in 1893 belongs to this style. However, after entering the age of no doubt, under the influence of modernist poet Pound and others.
Especially under the influence of Irish nationalist political movement's personal experience, Ye Zhi's creative style has undergone drastic changes, which is closer to modernism. Ye Zhi is not only one of the decision makers of Abbey Theatre, but also a senator of Irish Parliament.
He attaches great importance to his social status and is a famous doer in the Irish Senate. Ye Zhi won Nobel Prize in Literature on 1923. The reason for winning the prize is that he expressed the soul of the whole nation with his artistic and appealing poems. 1934, he and Rudyard Kipling won the Gutenberg Prize for Poetry.