英文散文youth

Youth写作特点是作者采用了 比喻，拟人，排比的手法，给青春 下定义，诊释了青春的内涵。

《Youth》是塞缪尓·厄尔曼散文，散文诗篇幅短小，情感真挚，哲理深刻；青春是人们谈论不休的话题。千百年来，不同的人对青春做过不同的诠释。学大家塞缪尔·厄尔曼将散文诗的体裁和青春的主题巧妙结合，从与众不同的角度，运用比喻，拟人，排比多种修辞方式，给青春做出了全新的界定，视角新奇，启人深思。

《Youth》诗歌：

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.

Inthe center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.