Dear, talk about the philosophy of love.
We have been walking here for three hours.
There are two shadows around us,
This shadow comes from ourselves;
Now the sun is shining overhead,
We step on our own shadows,
Everything looks beautiful and clear.
This is how our love Miao grew up.
So is our cover-up
Gradually disappear. But this is no longer the case.
That kind of love has not reached its peak,
While it's still trying to avoid other people's eyes.
Unless our love stops at noon,
We will create a new shadow on the other side.
The first shadow is used to deceive others,
Later, shadows were used to deceive us—
Deal with yourself and deceive your eyes.
If our love fades away,
I will treat you, you treat me.
Keep their actions secret.
The shadow of the morning light fades away,
The shadow of the afternoon keeps developing,
Once love declines, its future is short!
Love comes into this world with a full and unchanging light,
But if it's past noon, the next minute is evening.
(translated by Bai Fei)
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A lesson in the shadow is about the philosophy of love, but the angle is very novel. In this poem, Donne uses the easily perceived image of "shadow" to express the subtle "cover-up" in love life. The structure of the whole poem is divided into two symmetrical halves, and the rhyme format is exactly the same, all of which are aabb, cddc, eec and ff. These two parts describe and discuss "shadow in the morning" and "shadow in the afternoon" respectively.
The poet uses "morning" to symbolize the development stage of love. In the morning, as the sun gradually rises to the zenith, the figure will gradually become shorter, so that it will finally be trampled underfoot. Donne uses this natural phenomenon to describe the development process of love from secret to open, from hidden to clear. When love begins to sprout, it always tries to avoid people's eyes and ears. If others know, the parties will cover up the prevarication and cover up the truth. This is a subtle psychological stage with a hazy shadow.
Then, love gradually became clear. In the "noon" of love, to people in love, everything is as bright as noon, but to others' eyes and ears, there is no need to hide it.
However, Donne's thinking did not stop there. In the second half of the poem, he used "afternoon" to symbolize the declining stage of love, which sounded the alarm for people. He borrowed the phenomenon that after noon, a new shadow will appear on the other side, allegorizing the cover-up and deception between lovers themselves. Once this happens, it will develop like a snowball, and the hidden shadow will grow like the shadow in the afternoon until it reaches the night of love.
Although Donne's metaphor is full of metaphysical flavor of philosophical argument, his life experience and philosophy are both rich and true. As a love philosophy poem, I don't want to speculate what other thoughts it contains. However, when Donne is talking about "noon of love" and "full and unshakable light coming to the world", we can still feel his humanistic enthusiasm; And when he lamented that love can't "stop at noon" and "if noon passes, the next minute is night", we can also feel Donne's anxious attitude towards the dark reality in the era just after the Renaissance.
From Donne's poems, we can see the poetic style of the metaphysical school: there are * * * in his poems, but he does not directly express his feelings, but philosophizes; There are thoughts in his poems, but he doesn't say them directly, but feels them. When he writes poetry, he seems to use a kind of double thinking, deliberately linking seemingly unrelated ideas or things together, producing a strange feeling, specious, specious, and inducing people to ponder the deep content. In addition, Donne's poetic language and rhythm are colloquial, full of drama and expressiveness.
The metaphysical poets represented by Donne appeared after Elizabethan England, which is quite similar to the British and American modernist poets after Victorian England, and can be said to be1the "avant-garde" at the beginning of the 7th century. Donne rose up against Petrarch's poetic style in Elizabeth's heyday, broke the unification of Petrarch-style love poems since the Renaissance, abandoned a set of rhetoric and metaphors used in sonnets, found a new way, and found the isomorphism and tension relationship between intelligence and * * *, thought and perception, which not only showed Donne's restless and speculative nature, but also described the contradiction and disconnection of life in a tortuous way.
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