“只有一个人爱你那朝圣者的灵魂/爱你衰老了的脸上痛苦的皱纹”,这是叶芝的《当你老了》里最为有名的诗句,也是他流传最广的诗歌,仿佛这首诗歌和叶芝之间已经划上等号似的。许多人,都是从这首诗歌开始认识叶芝的,于是大家都认为他就是这样的一个抒情诗人。其实,这只是叶芝的一个侧面,这就如同站在靠近海洋的岬角去眺望海洋时,所见到的只是海洋的一小片。 “Only one person loves the soul of your pilgrim, the painful wrinkles on your aging face,” is the most famous poem in Yeats’s Old When You Are, and his most widely circulated poem, as if This poem and Yeats have been equated. Many people started to know Yeats from this poem, and everyone thought he was such a lyrical poet. In fact, this is only a side of Yeats, which is like standing on the promontory near the ocean overlooking the ocean, only to see a small piece of the ocean.