We stare at the Irish 1 Ye Zhi's lifelong dream.

Ye Zhi's full name is William? Butler? Ye Zhi, there are about three translations of the name Ye Zhi:

"Ye Zhi" is perhaps the most popular and transliterated version; Taiwan Province people translated it into Yates, perhaps because of the religious color and mysticism in his later poems; I love the name "Ye Ci" alone-"Ye" embodies his pastoral and pastoral realm, while "Ci" more accurately expresses his sensitivity, tenderness, tenderness, compassion and religious feelings.

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A 24-year-old young poet realized his lifelong dream. Ye Zhi later recalled the first time he saw Maud over and over again. In the scene of "Gongang", it is written like this: "She is standing at the window with a mass of apple flowers beside her; She is dazzling, like a petal full of sunshine. "

From that day on, the most beautiful poem in English history was born-when you are old.

Today, this poem is a household name in China. Even though many people haven't really read it, they are still catchy and moved by that passage. "How many people love your happy youth and worship your beauty, hypocrisy and sincerity? Only one person loves your pilgrim's soul and the painful wrinkles on your aging face ..."

Why can this poem impress so many people, go out of Ireland and still be sung in many other countries?

First of all, in the process of pursuing and owning love, people often have a sense of insecurity. No matter ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, the biggest love appeal is four words-never leave. We always want to have an opportunity to test whether this person around us can realize our yearning for never leaving.

So how can we best prove that we will never leave? Only time. And time usually comes in two forms, one is death and the other is getting old.

What proves great love by death has been expressed many times in countless literary works at home and abroad, such as Romeo and Juliet, Peony Pavilion and A Dream of Red Mansions. But for most people, on the one hand, we always feel that death seems far away from us; On the other hand, only when death comes and life ends can we know the answer. Although life tends to be full, I believe many people are unwilling.

Therefore, getting old is the best way to verify.

When I am old, Zhu Yan will retire from the mirror, and the beauty is gone; My hair turned white and wrinkled yesterday. Do you still love me as before? Will you never leave me? Ye Zhi gave the answer and oath, "Only one person loves your pilgrim soul and the painful wrinkles on your aging face ..."

Interestingly, Ye Zhi worked for Mod when he was young. Gu nang wrote this poem, and then the long years seemed to test his original vows one by one until he was old and realized this promise. It seems that I have been walking towards the time and space I imagined when I was young, towards old age, towards love, just like walking towards a belief. Is this a coincidence? Or is it a premonition of individual life when feelings are intense? Or is it the poet's unique "revelation"? All these give this poem a religious color.

What is even more tragic is that when you are old-you touched the sky and all the people in the world, but you were not touched.

I met her for the first time from 1889, Maud? Gon Ang is with you, constantly appearing in Ye Zhi's dreams, hearts and poems; Although she has been dead for many years, she will always live in Ye Zhi's poems. Since then, Yeats has proposed to her four times in a row and has been rejected again and again.

19 17, Ye Ci's fifth and last visit to Maud? Gon ang failed to propose marriage.

His good friend Mrs. Gregory encouraged him to continue his efforts, and he only replied, "No, I'm tired, and I don't want to toss about any more." At this time, from him under the apple flowers to Maud? Gon ang has been in love at first sight for 28 years.

This year, Ye Zhi was 52 years old.

"In fact, this proposal is more like a negative attitude." Professor Allen said mysteriously while walking on the stone road of Lisa Dell Manor. I guess his proposal was also impulsive, similar to "this is my last chance to give you." If you still refuse, I'll accept my fate. "

Interestingly, about five years later, in the Far East of China, there was also a young and affectionate poet, Xu Zhimo, whose proposal to his beloved Lin was rejected. In a letter to Liang Qichao, he also expressed the same meaning, "I will visit my only soul mate in the vast sea of people." I am lucky to get it; No, my life. That's all. "

The same person who has been in love for many years has repeatedly refused. "Not courting", crossing the East and West, seems to be the same fate for poets.

According to Buddhism, there are eight difficulties in life, namely, birth, old age, illness, death, resentment, love separation, ambition and prosperity of five elements.

From this point of view, it is impossible-that is the theme of Ye Zhi's poems and his life proposition. The English poet w·h· Auden once wrote in memory of Ye Ci, "Crazy Ireland stabbed you into a poem". I think it is more accurate to say that "crazy love has turned Ye Zhi into a poem"-the depth of love, the persistence of love, the pain of love and the hopelessness of love.

I don't want to grow flowers because I can't get them. For example, his "Under Sally's Garden" sounds like "Jia Jian" in the Book of Songs. The same tossing and turning, deep and quiet; The same beauty is hard to find.

After photographer John? How does this describe Maud in Phillips' book? Gunang's, "Although she is 7 1 year-old, she still speaks to the crowd on the streets of Dublin despite the police's surveillance. She talked about Ye Zhi and said with a smile,' He is a man full of femininity.' "

I stared at Maud more than once? Pictures of miss Gon ang. To tell the truth, she is really not beautiful, but her eyebrows are slightly delicate, her eyes are big and radiant, and her eyes are quite determined. This is a dynamic woman and a person with an unshakable life background.

I have asked more than once: how can two people with such different interests in life and completely different personal temperament fall in love?

One is a masculine revolutionary, and his father is a British army colonel. He loves politics, violence and revolution by nature and has been in charge of the Irish national liberation movement all his life. One is a feminine poet, and his father is a painter, sensitive and affectionate, gentle and polite. He was addicted to literature all his life and always had a tearful attachment to his hometown of sligo.

Nature plays tricks on people. That's how two people collide.

Maybe it's a passion deep in the soul-her passion for the revolution is more or less similar to his love for her-burning like fire for many years.

If he really fell in love with this woman all his life, instead of this kind of love, he even wrote, "the pleasure of love drove love away."

Frustration produces poetry. For individual Ye Ci, love is elusive and the country is in deep turmoil, which can be described as the double frustration of love and country.

But for the poet Ye Ci, this may be a kind of luck. The unfortunate poets of the country are lucky, they have been endowed with vicissitudes. It is precisely because the country is not yet independent and the nation is in turmoil that the poet's feelings about home and country and national feelings can be aroused to a greater extent and his creation can be inspired.

At the same time, like Maud? The world should thank Gu 'ang for rejecting what she said to Ye Zhi. It is precisely because on the road of love, Ye Zhi has been begging and writing in pain and frustration. On the one hand, in the long poetic career, for Maud? Gu nang wrote countless poems, constantly trying various styles and styles to imagine and precipitate love from all angles; On the other hand, under her influence, Ye Zhi devoted himself to the Irish national autonomy movement and participated in the construction of national spirit, becoming the most important pillar.

A few months after the failure of the fifth proposal, Ye Zhi made an incredible and extremely struggling move-asking Maud? Gon ang's adopted daughter Isolde? Gang Ang's proposal was also rejected. At the end of the same year, he married George, an English woman who had known and admired him since her early years. Hadley. The young wife later gave birth to a son and a daughter for Ye Zhi.

Ye Zhi always yearns for family life and loves children very much. Later, although he had a wife and a son, I believe he was somewhat unwilling. Just like Baoyu, "even if Mei Qi is taken as an example, it's hard to say what it means"-and the person he admired all his life never got it until he died.

Although Ye Zhi himself once said in his poems that "Romantic Ireland is dead", this sentence is obviously due to the poet's writing skills or passion, and he has built a very romantic Ireland in his poems all his life.

I believe that any English romantic who loves poetry can blurt out a poem in Sadness of Love: "A girl with sad red lips stood up, as if the greatness of the world was full of tears." Or "I must have left. There are daffodils and lilies swaying beside a grave. " Song of the Happy Shepherd

Ye Zhi enriches Ireland with his gorgeous poetic style and free imagination, and the Ireland he describes is also beautiful in style and profound in meaning, which completely conforms to people's imagination of Ireland. (Text/Xia Ling)

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