Blake [England]
Ross, you are sick!
In the call of the storm,
Flying in the dark.
Invisible moth.
Found your bed,
Happiness that turns red,
His secret black love,
Ruined your life.
(translated by Bai Fei)
William blake (1757—— 1827) is an English poet and printmaker. I was apprenticed to a woodcut artist since I was a child, and later I made a living by engraving prints. He began to write poems when he was a teenager, but because no one published them, he had to engrave them on a copper plate and publish them himself. The main works of his life include five poems, such as Song of Innocence. His poems express his ideal and life with fresh ballads and unrestrained plain poems, which are passionate and imaginative, and are the pioneers of English romantic poetry.
Blake is an early English romantic poet. He is good at expressing his feelings for man and nature with symbols and metaphors. The poem "Sick Rose" is addressed to his wife. She loves poets very much, but she likes jealousy and suspects that her husband is having an affair, so Blake wrote this poem to persuade her.
The moving part of this poem lies in the poet's sincere and deep love for his wife. He advised his little sister like a brother, and expressed his wife's achilles heel tactfully like a doctor advised a patient. "Rose" is generally used to symbolize love and lovers. The poet compares his wife to a "sick rose", which shows that he is devoted to his wife and very loving, and also sets the tone for the whole poem. Then, it is invisible to use "moth" to symbolize jealousy. Its arrival will definitely bring darkness to his wife's mind and make her calm heart restless, "stormy call"! Mother is proud of her shelter and waiting for an opportunity to enter a deep red heart that deeply loves her husband. At this point, it can be said that the poet has clearly pointed out the harm of "jealousy"-it is beyond the reach of silkworm and invisible.
However, the poet is afraid of hurting his wife's self-esteem. He put himself in the position of his wife and regarded jealousy as a means of self-love and self-defense, and this hidden excessive self-love would "ruin your life" like a person dying of congestion. The poet persuades his wife carefully, tactfully and sincerely to express "my feelings" with "no self".
Metaphor and symbolism are used in the whole poem: the author uses a sick rose to symbolize his wife who is jealous and suspicious because of her deep love, a "storm call sign" to symbolize her serious illness, a moth to symbolize terrible jealousy, a "red joy" to symbolize the happiness and joy of love, and a "secret black love" to symbolize the jealousy caused by deep love, but the wife can't realize it. The author writes this way because the poet cares and loves his wife, but he doesn't want to hurt her love for him.
In a word, apart from touching sentences, the poet's artistic skill is quite profound. Every sentence in the whole poem is a semantic pun with rich and profound connotation, which can be called a masterpiece in "Guan Quan Poetry". And the husband's tolerance, understanding, love and help to his wife is even more touching.