叶芝 (Yèzhī): Yeats — most commonly W. B. Yea…

Meanings

1 Yeats — most commonly W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939), Irish poet and Nobel laureate

Characters

叶

yè

leaf (phonetic 'Yea-')

芝

zhī

iris/lingzhi mushroom (phonetic '-ts')

Examples

叶芝是二十世纪最重要的英语诗人之一。

Yèzhī shì èrshí shìjì zuì zhòngyào de Yīngyǔ shīrén zhī yī.

Yeats is one of the most important English-language poets of the twentieth century.

她最喜欢的诗是叶芝的《当你老了》。

Tā zuì xǐhuan de shī shì Yèzhī de 《Dāng nǐ lǎo le》.

Her favourite poem is Yeats's 'When You Are Old'.

Tips

culture

叶芝 = W. B. Yeats. His poem 《当你老了》 ('When You Are Old') is hugely famous in China — singer 赵照 set it to music in 2014 and it became a viral hit on 《我是歌手》, making Yeats arguably the most-quoted Western poet on Chinese social media.