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Author: (Ireland) Yeats, translated by Ai Mei
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The Wind Among the Reeds is a poetry collection of love, consisting of 80 poems selected from 12 of Yeats' collections from 1889 to 1939. Some of the chosen poems have a slow rhythm, like a cello melody drifting out of a long alley; others are bright and joyful, resembling a beautiful flute tune on the Irish grasslands. Love runs through Yeats' life and permeates all the poems. In his life and poetry, love is serious and sacred, beautiful yet painful. He blends youth, love, and death into the recurring, intricate flow of time, allowing ancient and modern to gaze at each other in the same spatial-temporal context. In this painful confrontation, themes such as truth and freedom emerge one by one, imbued with the weight of time. No one can surpass Yeats in elevating the praise of love to such an extreme, even transcending the human beings within it. In this vast and boundless temporal and spatial realm, Yeats tirelessly constructs his own and humanity's eternal questions—life, dignity, youth, love—expressing his boundless love for himself and his fellow humans.