[UK] Appreciation of love poems "Between the Sunset and the Sea" by Swinburne
[UK] Swinburne
Between the Sunset and the Sea ,
My lover's hands and lips caressed me.
Day brings night, sweetness brings sourness,
Long-term wishes bring short-term joy.
Love, what do you bring?
Between the dunes and the sea?
Between the tide line and the sea
Joy turns to sorrow, sorrow turns to me,
Love turns to tears, tears turns to fire,
Dead joy turns to new wishes,
In a trance, I hear love words and feel caressed,
Between the beach and the sea.
Between the sunset and the sea
Love protects me through the moment of love,
Then I walk on the golden waterway
< p> He flew away, following Sunset.I saw his steps coming and going,
Between the foam and the sea.
Between the seaside and the sea,
Love envelopes dreams, and dreams envelope me.
The first star saw two become one
Between the rising and setting of the moon;
The second star saw no love, only me, < /p>
Between the coast and the sea.
(Translated by Fei Bai)
Algernon Charles Swinburne was a famous poet and critic in the Victorian era in England. Swinburne was an atheist who sympathized with the Italian independence movement and the French Revolution. He enthusiastically praised democracy and freedom in his poems, and compiled poems expressing revolutionary democracy into a collection of poems, "Songs Before Sunrise." He has profound attainments in poetic techniques. His poems are rich in color and beautiful in tone. He opened up the field of British lyric poetry and enriched the rhythm of British poetry. His main collection of poems, "Poems and Ballads," was popular among young people at the time because it vividly and delicately expressed the love between men and women. It also caused an uproar in public opinion because it violated traditional etiquette. ***
The poem "Between the Sunset and the Sea" is selected from Swinburne's early verse drama "Shastra". This lyrical interlude is sung by the play's character Mary Bitton. Swinburne grew up by the sea and loved the sea since he was a child. His poems are full of sea themes and sea rhythms, causing his attackers to call him an "eight-clawed sea monster."
The sea has its tranquility and depth, as well as its rushing and roaring. It is more like human love that lasts and is deep but sets off new waves in everyone's heart from time to time. The sunset is both bright and soft, which makes people fascinated, but it is fleeting and makes people feel regretful. It is like the footsteps of magical and wonderful love, which comes and goes in a hurry. In "Between the Sunset and the Sea", the poet uses the sunset and the sea as images to progressively express the sweetness and pain of love.
This poem seems to express the mood of "I" when I fell in love with my lover for the first time on the seaside. In the first paragraph, the poet first juxtaposes the kiss of the sunset and the sea with the lover's first caress of "me", thus inspiring the reader's huge imagination: the soft and brilliant colors of the sunset make people can't help but think See the colorful garlands of love, and think of the tenderness between lovers. Although the sunset is beautiful, it is the last moment of the day. This makes people discover the similarities between the two different things: sunset and love: both beautiful and fleeting, both permanent and short-lived. Therefore, between the tide line and the sea water, the tide line is sometimes high and sometimes low. The higher it rises, the lower it sinks; on the beach where lovers meet, "joy turns into sadness, sadness turns into me, love turns into tears, and tears turn into fire." The turbulent ups and downs of love are like the turbulent waves. The sea brings dreamlike sweetness and unbearable bitterness to people. The moment of meeting is sweeter, and the waiting for separation is bitter. Only sweet love can turn into bitter tears; only bitter tears can arouse excitement and pursuit that are as burning as fire. The poet's sight moves from the setting sun to the light and shadow left by the setting sun on the sea. He uses this light and shadow to symbolize the coming and going of love, which is magical and unpredictable, yet tangible and tangible. As the sun sets and night falls, the dream of love envelopes everything again. The first star turns the moment of love into eternity just like "I" begged, but the second star turns the eternity of love into love. moment. This is the ocean that repeats and changes forever, just like the love that exists forever in the moment.
Swinburne’s creations are deeply influenced by French Symbolist poetry, especially Baudelaire. In his poems, images and sounds are suggestive and symbolic.
The central image of this poem is "the sea", the vastness of the sea, the turbulence of the sea, the ebb and flow of the sea, and the ups and downs of love, the pain and happiness, and the negative waiting that love brings to people. In order to actively pursue the many "heterogeneous and isomorphic" points of convergence, the poet uses these many points of convergence to connect the sea in nature with the most sacred emotions in the soul, and uses the visible and perceptible image of the sea to express rich, complex, and complex emotions. The ever-changing, flowing, difficult-to-grasp, indescribable emotions and fleeting feelings acquire the eternity of time and space. The integrated communication between the poet and the sea also triggers the collision and excitement between the reader, the sea, and the poet, allowing people to experience, grasp, and cherish this sad, silent, and inspiring story at a higher level. Exciting, evocative bitterness and sweetness. The sea symbolizes love, as well as the beautiful hopes and pursuits in life.
In addition to using symbolic techniques, this poem also successfully uses the technique of foil. The reason why the image of the sea is so vivid, vivid and rich is that it is set off by the setting sun, tide line, beach, sea foam and coast. The setting sun is a foil that focuses on time, showing the "long-term desire" and the short-term "joy" of the sea; although the surging tide and splashing sea foam are fleeting, they rise and fall again and again, containing the hope that will never die. They focus on space, showing that the "dead joy" is constantly flowing into the heart to become a "new wish". Against the background of these scenes, the happiness and pain, tranquility and changes, magnanimity and unpredictability of the sea are clearly presented before people's eyes, making people realize that love is like the sea, always in happiness and pain, truth and frankness. Unpredictable, oscillating between reality and fantasy.
This poem not only has a blend of scenes, which constitutes the beauty of artistic conception, but also has a beautiful and harmonious tone, which also constitutes the beauty of music. In terms of rhythm, this poem adopts the rhythm of ocean waves: repetition and change, surging and slowing down, which fully expresses the dizziness and confusion of mixed emotions brought by love. The beauty of artistic conception and the beauty of music blend together to create the charming artistic effect of this poem.