Take a cold look at life and death, knight, move on!
Source: The last sentence of his later work "Under the Mountain of Benbulbin"
Under the head of bare Ben Bourbon (under the bare Ben Bourbon mountain,)
Ye Zhi is located in the center of Lifu Cemetery in Lamke. )
An ancestor was the rector there (an ancestor used to be the rector there)
A long time ago, there was a church nearby (many years ago, there was a church nearby)
There is an old cross by the roadside. (On the roadside, it is an ancient cross.)
No marble, no traditional phrases; (There is no marble tablet, and there is no rhetoric; )
On limestone mined near the site (on limestone collected nearby)
At his order, these words were deleted:? (It was carved according to his instructions:)
Cast a cold eye (cast a cold eye)
About life, about death. (For life, for death)
Knight, get over there! (knight, forward! )
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Ye Zhi's writing characteristics:
Most of his early poems were based on Irish legends and folk songs. Ye Zhi is a participant in the Irish nationalist movement, so politics is a theme of his poems. Ye Zhi's nationalist passion is closely related to his love for Maud Gunn, who is an outstanding actress devoted to Irish cultural revival, so love is also the theme of Ye Zhi's life.
Just when Ye Zhi felt that the early style had reached its peak and the new development direction was still unclear, Ezra Pound entered the life circle of Ye Zhi and had a great influence on the formation of his new style.
This influence directly leads to a new subtle concreteness in Ye Zhi's mid-term poems, which has something in common with Pound's imagist poems. This change is not only reflected in the content, but also in the wording, and the result is a new simple and concrete style. It pays more attention to spiritual images and details, and its emotions are clearer.
The style of Ye Zhi's later poems is more concise and accurate, with strong oral color. Most of them are based on the details of the poet's personal life and social life at that time, and most of them are about death and love to express some clear feelings and thoughts.
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