英美文学阅读与鉴赏
When you are old
By William Butler Yeats
When you are old
W hen you are old and grey and full of sleep.
And nodding by the fire, take down this book.
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
How many loved your moments of glad grace.
And loved your beauty with love false or true.
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you.
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled.
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
Yeats pain and misfortune hopeless for Mao De Gang love, prompting Yeats to write down a lot for Mao De Gang poetry, in dozens of years, from various angles, Mao De Gang Yeats continue to inspire creative inspiration;
sometimes passionate love, sometimes is hopeless resentment, more time is a complex tension between love and hate.
When he wrote this poem, his love objects are young, has a beautiful appearance and charming charm. People often say, "which girl poor season, which poor boys love". From ancient to modern times, always seem to love and beauty of youth, together. When people bathed in love, my mind is only now, always there is a time to change, will be rejected, this moment forever desire.The poet must through a time tunnel distant, think of Confidante girls in old age, she thought, body bent like grey-haired. The poet writes is not just to tell her this "truth", but to express his love to her in this way. The poet seems to be a lonely, far, but dedicated to watching, people are in love with the girl to her Zhongxingpengyue, gave his unique is really precious love, because someone else, or true or false love, just love her appearance, unique poetry loved her noble soul.Confidante easy old, youth is difficult to remain, young and noble spirit of inner beauty, quality would always be there, in the passage of time is like wine, the longer the taste of Tibet, alcohol indemnity, love can transcend the poet and time, beyond the outer beauty.
This love poem is unique, unique from the poet's unique and sincere emotion, no such feelings, deliberately to create new styles, will only make people feel.Therefore, this poem is about the poet in the imagination of the girls in the old age, rather than to the girl, to a poet in the passage of time exposed himself to the world may reflect the truth. In this sense, we are impressed in the poems that reflect sad hopeless, but no regrets to sincere emotion.
"When you are old" this four word gently thought, let people have a feeling of want to cry. When the young love was rejected, but the poet fantasy years later -- "the moment you are old", he is looking forward to that moment, "you" will truly understand the "I" to "you" had a great and selfless love. The poem
begins with a hypothetical time adverbial, and then imagine their old lover grey-haired, sleepy, youth and beauty is no longer the scene.Then, when she opened the former lover of poem, chanting gently in the fire, she will recall all the past, her beautiful eyes, soft light and deep and vignetting when she was young. "When you are old," everything has become the past, and "you" at a young age but refused to pay a stint with the "love me", after the old in addition to regret and regret what can be done?
After reading this poem, my heart can not be calm, who can predict the future? When we are old, for yesterday or today, for life irreparable beautiful, how will we sad? We should cherish their own lives.。