when you are old
Ye Zhi (Ireland)
When you are old, gray-haired and sleepy.
Take a nap by the fire, take down this book,
Reading slowly, dreaming of the gentle eyes.
Your eyes were once, and their shadows were deep;
How many people love your happy and elegant moments,
Love your beauty with false or true love;
But there is one person who loves your pilgrim soul,
Love the sadness on your aging face;
Bend down by the glowing fireplace,
Whispering a little sadly, how love dies.
Pacing on the mountains overhead,
Hide his face among the stars.
China died that year.
Lover translation
When Hua died, you were gray-haired and sleepy.
Sit by the fire and take a slow nap. Please take down my collection of poems.
Please read slowly, like a dream, and you will relive it.
Your eyes used to be so affectionate and gentle.
How many people have loved your radiant charm,
Love your beautiful face, either sincerely or playfully,
But there is only one person! He loves your holy and devout heart!
When you wash away the lead and grieve for the beauty, she still loves you deeply!
The flame in the furnace is warm and bright, so you lower your head gently.
With a touch of sadness, whispering for the dying love,
At this time, he was wandering alone in Qian Shan,
Hide your face behind the stars staring at you all over the sky.
when you are old
Translated by Yuan Kejia
When you are old, gray-haired and sleepy,
Take a nap by the fire, please write down this poem.
Read slowly and recall the tenderness of your eyes in the past.
Recall the heavy shadows of their past;
How many people love you when you are young and happy,
Worship your beauty, hypocrisy or sincerity,
Only one person loves your pilgrim soul,
Love the painful wrinkles on your aging face;
I hung my head, by the red fire,
Whispering sadly about the passing of love,
On the mountain overhead, it walked slowly.
A face is hidden among a group of stars.
—— 1893
when you are old
Translated by Qiu Xiaolong
When you are old, gray-haired and sleepy,
Take a nap by the fire, take down this book,
Read slowly and dream that your eyes once
Some tenderness, and their deep shadows;
How many people love your happy and wonderful time,
Love your beauty, whether true or false,
But there is one person who loves your pilgrim soul,
I also love the sadness on your aging face;
Bend over the burning stove,
Muttered sadly, how love left,
Walking alone in the mountains overhead,
Bury his face among the stars.
when you are old
Translated by Yang Mu
When you are old, gray-haired and sleepy,
Sleep by the fire, take down this book,
Read slowly and dream back to your eyes.
There is soft light and deep wave shadow;
How many people fall in love, when you are happy and elegant,
Love, your beauty is true, your love is false,
There is someone who loves your soul and faces the mountain.
Love your face changed by your heartbeat.
Bend over the flashing iron railing,
Hey, with a little sadness, how can love be?
Escaped and wandered on the high mountain overhead.
Fu hid his face among a group of stars.
when you are old
Fu Hao translation
When you are old, sunburned and sleepy,
Please write down this book when you take a nap by the fire.
Read slowly and dream of your eyes.
Soft eyes, deep reflection in eyes;
How many people love your charming time,
The beauty of loving you comes from hypocrisy or truth,
But only one person loves the sincerity of your soul,
Love the biting wind and frost on your declining face;
Bend down, by the red fireplace,
Whispering sadly, how Cupid escaped,
Walking in the mountains overhead,
Hide his face among the stars.
when you are old
Bai Fei translation
When you are old, gray-haired and sleepy,
Take a nap in front of the stove, please take down this poem.
Back slowly, dreaming of your eyes.
Soft light and faint shadows;
How many people have loved your beauty with sincerity and hypocrisy,
Love your happy and charming youth,
Only one person loves your pilgrim heart,
Love the sadness on your aging face;
When you lean over the burning fireplace,
You will speak softly, with a hint of sadness:
The lost love has now set foot on the mountain.
Hide its face in a dense cluster of stars.
Creative background:
Maud Gunny: Ye Zhi's hopeless love
1October 30th, 23-year-old Ye Zhi met the beautiful actress Maud Gunny for the first time. She is 22 years old and the daughter of a British colonel in Ireland. Recently, she inherited a large fortune after her father died. Maud Gunny is not only beautiful, slim and moving, but also after feeling the miserable situation of the Irish people being oppressed by the British, she began to sympathize with the Irish people, resolutely gave up the social life of Dublin's upper class, devoted herself to the movement for Irish national independence and became one of the leaders. This adds a special aura to Maud Gunny in Ye Zhi's mind.
Ye Zhi fell in love with Maud Gunn at first sight and was infatuated with him. Ye Zhi described the first time he met Maud Gunn: "She was standing by the window, surrounded by a mass of apple blossoms; 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 tortured him, he never confessed to her, for one thing, because he was shy, and for another, he felt that she could not marry a poor student.
Maud Gunn has always kept a certain distance from Ye Zhi. 189 1 In July, Ye Zhi misunderstood the information in a letter she gave herself, thinking that she had made a hint of love for herself, and immediately rushed to Maud Gunny 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, Maud Gunny 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.
Ye Zhi's hopeless pain and misfortune for Maud Gunny's love prompted Ye Zhi to write many poems about Maud Gunny. For decades, Maud Gunny has 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.
When you are old, he hopes for a splendid paradise, Bai Niao, reconciliation, and opposing worthless praise are all masterpieces written by Ye Zhi to Modgunny.
Poetry appreciation:
She has Helen's beauty and Helen's wildness. She was his muse from the moment I met her. He wrote many sincere poems for her, and his heart collapsed and fell again and again in front of her cruel beauty like Troy.
She doesn't know what kind of love and home she is looking for, but she knows exactly what kind of lover she doesn't want. How many people are obsessed with the title of poet, but she swore in her heart: never marry a sentimental poet.
After five proposals and five rejections, he finally realized that they would never have sex. But that broken heart can't stop singing and imagining love in the end. Then, inspired by the French poet Pierre de Ronsard's sonnet "When you are old, at night, by candlelight", a popular love swan song "When you are old" was born.
Therefore, the poet's emotional frustration has become a great wealth of poetry.