送交者: 方无隅 于 October 19, 2004 02:37:08:[新观察/xgc.merseine.nu]
回答: hmm...all romantics 由 hutuchong 于 October 18, 2004 20:37:47:
Frankly I really thought Emily loved and treasured her past life, for why she revisited her old home if she disliked the life she had lived there? But you have your reason to understand it that way. Anyway, you help me rethink the poem more carefully.
As for Chinese poetry, I'm afraid you may have misunderstood it in regards to your so-called modern emotions. Don't you know some experts have already pointed out that we can even find true spirit of modernity in some Tang poems, especially those of Li Shangyin's? Plus, I even think almost all modern emotions can be found in ancient Chinese poems.
I believe there is something poetic that has nothing to do with languages. That's why we translate poems.