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To a Child Dancing in The Wind
By William Butler Yeats

DANCE there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water's roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best laboure...

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To a Child Dancing in The Wind
By William Butler Yeats

DANCE there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water's roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind!

致风中舞蹈的女孩
威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

就在海边跳起舞蹈，
你又何必在乎
风与浪的咆啸？
把透湿的头发披散，
带咸味的海水滴落你的发稍；
你太过年轻，
愚人的胜利你无法明了，
爱会转瞬即逝
你也难以知晓；
你不懂强健的工人也会累死，
你不懂农民收割麦子的辛劳。
你又何必惧怕，
海风恐怖的呼唤？

1.The Dancing Child or Girl?
- It is said that the “dancing child in the wind” refers to Iseult, daughter of Maude Gonne, who had been Yeat’s lifelong muse. Though not Iseult’s biological father, Yeats was her mentor and the closest person to an encouraging father.
- At the age of 15, Iseult proposed to Yeats, but he turned her down.
- The carefree, fearless dancing child resembles the mercurial, bold Iseult.

有学者认为叶芝这首诗中的风中起舞的孩子指的是缪斯茅德岗的女儿伊索尔特，之前在”The Song of Wandering Aegnus”中介绍过叶芝与茅德岗不圆满的爱情故事。虽然叶芝与茅德岗没有结婚，但两人却一直维持着友谊，叶芝也成为了伊索尔特的人生导师。然而三人的关系并没有那么简单，十五岁的伊索尔特曾向叶芝求婚，被叶芝拒绝。（其实伊索尔特23岁时叶芝又多次向她求婚被拒，唉贵圈真乱）诗中无忧无虑的孩子暗指脾气反复无常、坦率大胆的伊索尔特。

2.Tension between childhood innocence and potential adulthood darkness
- The dancing child represents childhood innocence and fearlessness while the wind, water's roar and the monstrous crying of the wind symbolizes the dark side of adulthood.
- “The fool’s triumph”, ”love lost and won”, “best labourer dead” refer to harsh realities of adulthood.

这首诗的主题并不难理解，主要体现无畏的青春和成人世界的黑暗之间的挣扎。诗中无忧无虑起舞的孩子代表青春的无畏，而诗中提到的风暴、波涛、海风恐怖的呼唤体现了成人世界的阴暗面。愚人的胜利，爱情的苦恼，工人的死亡等更加具体地揭示了成人世界中残酷的事实。

3.Ambivalent mood towards the child
- Depiction of the harsh reality suggests the child’s ultimate destruction.
- Meanwhile, Yeats seems to bear a touch of envy of the freedom of childhood.

叶芝在诗中表露出的情绪是复杂的，一方面从结尾“海风恐怖的呼喊”可以看出他认为无虑的孩子最终会被黑暗的现实吞噬，孩子总要长大成人，风暴终将来临。但另一方面从“你何必在乎”“你何必惧怕”又能看出叶芝似乎又对这种无忧无虑，无所畏惧的青春感到一丝羡慕和感慨。

对茅德岗、叶芝和伊索尔特感兴趣的还可以参考这个链接：http://therumpus.net/2012/05/saturday-history-lesson-the-unrequited-yeats/

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