This is his most famous poem:
When you are old.
When you are old, sunburned, sleepy and dozing by the fire, take this book down and read it slowly, dreaming of the tenderness in your eyes and the depth in your eyes; How many people love your charming time, your beauty comes from hypocrisy or truth, but only one person loves the sincerity of your soul and the bitter wind and frost on your declining face; Bend down and whisper sadly by the red fireplace, how Cupid escaped, wandering in the mountains overhead, hiding his face among the stars.
This is life.
William Butler of William Butler Yeats (1865 ~1939)1865 was born in Dublin on June 3rd. Studied painting at the Metropolitan Academy of Fine Arts in Dublin, 1887 began to specialize in poetry creation. 1939 65438+1October 28th, died in Locbruner, southern France. Ye Zhi's early works still have gorgeous romantic style, and he is good at creating a fantastic atmosphere. For example, his prose collection "Celtic Dawn" published in 1893 belongs to this style. However, after entering the unquestionable era, under the influence of modernist poet Pound and others, especially under the influence of Irish nationalist political movement that he experienced personally, Ye Zhi's creative style has undergone more intense changes, which is closer to modernism. Ye Zhi is not only one of the decision makers of Abbey Theatre, but also a senator of Irish Parliament. He attaches great importance to his social status and is a famous doer in the Irish Senate. Ye Zhi won the Nobel Prize in Literature with 1923, and won the prize for "expressing the soul of the whole nation with its artistic and appealing poems". 1934, he and Rudyard Kipling won the Gutenberg Prize for Poetry. Edit this early life and work.
Ye Zhi was born in Sandmont, not far from Dublin. His father, john butler Ye Zhi, is descended from jervis Ye Zhi, a linen merchant. This businessman died in 17 12, and his grandson Benjamin married Mary Butler, the daughter of a noble family in kildare. John Ye Zhi was studying law when he got married, but he soon dropped out of school to study portrait painting. His mother (that is, William Butler Yeats's grandmother) Susan Mary Polesfin comes from an English-Irish family in Sligo County. Shortly after his birth, the poet moved to a big family in sligo, and he himself always thought that Sligo County gave birth to his real childhood. The Butler-Ye Zhi family is a very artistic family. The poet's brother Jack later became a famous painter, while his two sisters Elizabeth and Susan both took part in the famous "Arts and Crafts Movement". Ye Zhi's family later moved to London for the poet's father's painting career. At first, Ye Zhi and his brothers and sisters received family education. The poet's mother often tells her children stories and folklore about her hometown, because she misses her hometown sligo very much. From 65438 to 0877, william yeats entered Godolphin Primary School, where he studied for four years. However, William doesn't seem to like this experience of Godofen, and his achievements are not outstanding. Due to financial difficulties, the poet family moved back to Dublin at the end of 1880. I lived in the center of the city at first, and then moved to Hoth in the suburbs. House's era is an important development stage for poets. Haosi is surrounded by mountains and Woods, and it is said that there are elves. Ye Zhi hired a maid, a fisherman's wife. She is familiar with all kinds of rural legends, and all her mysterious adventures are included in the later published Celtic Night. 10 year 10 month, the poet continued to study at Erasmus Smith College in Dublin. His father's studio is near this school, so poets often spend their time there and get to know many artists and writers in Dublin. During this period, Ye Zhi read a lot of works by British writers such as Shakespeare, and discussed with writers and artists much older than him. He graduated from this middle school from 1883 to 12, and then began to write poems. 1885, Ye Zhi published his first poem and an article entitled "The Poems of Sir Samuel Ferguson" in Dublin University Review. 1884 to 1886 studied at the Metropolitan Academy of Art in Kildare Street, which is now the predecessor of the Irish National Academy of Art and Design. Edit the young poet.
Before writing poetry, Ye Zhi tried to combine poetry with religious thoughts and feelings. Later, when describing his childhood, he said, "… I think … if a strong and compassionate spirit constitutes the fate of this world, then we can better understand this fate through words that blend people's inner desires for this world. "Ye Zhi's early poems are usually based on Irish myths and folklore, and his language style is influenced by pre-Raphael prose. During this period, Shelley's poems had a great influence on Ye Zhi. In a later article about Shelley, Ye Zhi wrote: "I reread Prometheus Liberated. Among all the great works in the world, its position in my heart is far higher than I expected. "Ye Zhi was also influenced by John O 'Leary, the leader of the famous Irish Finnish organization at that time. In his later years, the poet said Auryale was the most "charming old man" he had ever seen. "From Auryale's conversation and the Irish books he lent me or gave me, I realized my lifelong ambition." Under the introduction of Oreglia, Ye Zhi met Douglas Hyde and john tyler. The former established the Gaelic Union on 1893, which is dedicated to protecting and increasing the use of Irish. Ye Zhi's first important poem is Sculpture Island, which is a masterpiece imitating edmund spenser's poems. This poem was published in Dublin University Review and has not been reprinted since. The first work published by Ye Zhi was a pamphlet, Mosada: Drama Poetry. This article was also published in Dublin University Review, with only 100 copies printed, which was funded by his father. Since then, he has completed the narrative poem The Wandering of Ou Xin, and published the poetry collection The Wandering of Ou Xin and other poetry collections in 1889. This is the first work that has not been denied even after Ye Zhi's style matured. It is based on the legends and fairy tales of ancient Irish warriors. It took the poet two years to complete this poem, and its style clearly reflects the influence of Ferguson and pre-Raphael on the poet. To some extent, this poem established the theme style of Ye Zhi's later poems: a life of contemplation or a life of action. The themes of the first eight lyric poems and ballads in this collection of poems come from Ye Zhi's childhood imagination of Indian and Acadia paradise-gods and goddesses, princes and princesses, palaces, peacocks and mysterious lotus flowers. There are obvious traces of romanticism and pre-Raphael in poetry. After the adventures of Ushin, Ye Zhi never wrote a long poem. Most of his other early works are lyric poems with the theme of love or mystery.