It means the masculine and feminine sides of human nature. This sentence means that there is a tiger in my heart, sniffing the roses.

This sentence is a classic poem from the representative work "To Me, Past, Present and Future" by the British poet Sigreve Sassoon.

The poem is as follows:

In?me,?past,?present,?future?meet. ——Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)?

For me, past, present and future. ——Siegfried Sassoon

In?me,?past,?present,?

In me, past, present,

future? meet?To?hold?long?chiding?conference. ?

And the future? Discussing, each holding his own.

My?lusts?usurp?the?present?tense?And?strangle?Reason?in?his?seat.

The various disturbances and various desires plunder my present and strangle reason on its throne.

My?loves?leap?through?the?future’s?fence?To?dance?with?dream-enfranchised?feet.

My love has crossed the barriers of the future, and my dreams are freeing my feet to dance.

In?me?the?cave-man?clasps?the?seer,?

In me, the caveman seized the prophet,

And?garlanded ?Apollo?goes?Chanting?to?Abraham's?deaf?ear.

Apollo, garlanded with flowers, sang into Abraham's deaf ears.

In?me?the?tiger?sniffs?the?rose.

There is a tiger in my heart sniffing the roses.

Look?in?my?heart,?kind?friends,?and?tremble,?

Look into my heart, dear friend, you should tremble,

Since?there?your?elements?assemble.

Because that’s where you really are.

Extended information:

The creation background of the poem:

The author Siegriff Sassoon volunteered to join the army before the outbreak of World War I, and served in He showed bravery on the battlefield of World War I and made many meritorious deeds. However, the cruel scenes on the battlefield and the deaths of his comrades made him deeply aware of the scourge of war, so he quit the army in 1917.

After returning to his hometown, Sassoon expressed his anti-war stance with a large number of poetic and literary works. The most famous of them are the representative works "In Me, Past and Present" which depict the fear and emptiness in the war. And the Future", among which "There is a Tiger in My Heart, Smell the Roses" has become a popular and immortal classic.

This poem was translated by the famous writer and translator Mr. Yu Guangzhong. The creative techniques are novel and flexible, with beautiful rhythm and strong sense of rhythm.

"There is a tiger in my heart, and I smell the rose carefully" was translated by Yu Guangzhong in the prose "Tiger and Rose". He claimed to be a "reluctant translation", but this translation gradually became a classic. What this sentence wants to express is the duality of the human heart.

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