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.
However, Maud Gunny insisted on rejecting Ye Zhi's pursuit, and Ye Zhi's hopeless pain and misfortune for Maud Gunny's love prompted Ye Zhi to write many poems against Maud Gunny.
In the past decades, Maud Gunny has constantly inspired Ye Zhi's creative inspiration from all angles; Sometimes it is passionate love, sometimes it is desperate resentment, and more often it is the complex tension between love and hate.
Extended data:
When You Are Old is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1893. This is a passionate and sincere love poem dedicated by Ye Zhi to his girlfriend 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 faithful love for his girlfriend is reproduced. It reveals the insurmountable distance between real love and ideal love.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia _ When you are old