Schiller is as famous as Goethe because they share the same interests: their literary experiences are almost identical, and they all have a creative track from Rhapsody to classicism. Together with Goethe's "Song of a Lost Girl", he is regarded as a treasure of German poetry-two pearls embedded in the crown. "Knight, attendants, who has the courage to dive to the bottom of the abyss? If I drop a golden lamp, the black hole will swallow it. Who can help me get this golden lamp back? He can make it into a wine glass. " Perhaps, the god of poetry, like the emperor in the poem, threw the golden lamp into the unfathomable whirlpool to reward the knight who dared to fish in the sea. Schiller himself seems to swim in the legendary ocean, but he didn't get nothing-he got the wonderful inspiration of Song of the Hermit. ?
Some people say that the Robber written by Schiller 17 years old (known as "the first political drama in Germany") and Goethe's first opera "Goethe? Feng? "Berry Hinggan" is very similar. They all have each other's shadows, which makes it possible to establish a deep friendship. 1787, Schiller went to the principality of Weimar, but didn't get the rank. Fortunately, Goethe had already served as Weimar's minister-Schiller got the position of history professor at Jena University because of Goethe's mediation. It was in Jena that he completed the transition to classicism. ?
Beethoven impressed me as a melancholy man, but he wrote an ode to joy belonging to all mankind-the lyrics were written by Schiller. The two giants embraced each other through music and hugged you and me at the same time. Happiness is actually the ultimate in human nature. But Beethoven and Goethe are different people. Everyone knows that Goethe Lu Yu took off his hat when he was the prince of Weimar, but Beethoven turned a blind eye and went straight away. ?
We can't judge whether Goethe or Schiller is greater or more important. Generally speaking, Schiller is anti-aristocratic-especially his play "Conspiracy and Love" satirizes court life, while Goethe is more or less contaminated with the atmosphere of officialdom.
This is their difference, but it does not prevent them from appreciating each other. ?
Later, Nietzsche, another German, always resented comparing Goethe with Schiller. Borges inferred from this: "We can also say that it is rash to compare time and space; Because our thinking can have no space, but we can't have no time. " ?
Therefore, Goethe and Schiller-including Byron and Shelley, Pushkin and lermontov, Li Bai and Du Fu, etc. Who belongs to time and who belongs to space?
We can at least be sure (according to the relationship between time and space) that neither of them is the other's background. ?
"Schiller and I, two friends who have been together for many years and have similar interests, get along with each other, learn from each other and influence each other. They are like a person, it's hard to say which ones are his and which ones are mine. There are many poems that we have worked together. Sometimes it means that I came up with it and he wrote it. Sometimes it's the opposite. Sometimes he says the first sentence and I say the second. How can there be a difference between you and me here? " This is Goethe's recollection of his cooperation with Schiller-because at that time, some people argued endlessly about Schiller's poems and some poems printed in Goethe's poems. ?
But on another occasion, Goethe also inadvertently said that Schiller always pondered the writing plan and talked with everyone endlessly. Some plays are discussed with Goethe scene after scene. Goethe's situation is just the opposite: "I never talk to anyone about my plan to write poetry, and Schiller is no exception." I keep everything in mind silently, and often a work has been completed before others know it. I showed Schiller the completed Herman and Doulutai, and he was greatly surprised, because I never leaked a word to him about my intention to write this poem. " ?
These two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. At least it shows that Schiller has no reservations about Goethe, and Goethe is more loyal to himself. ?
Goethe and Schiller have different personalities, but they have the same ambition. "So they formed a close friendship and both felt inseparable from each other." Goethe?
Eichmann sorted out Goethe's conversations, with a time span of 1823- 1832, in which many paragraphs mentioned Schiller, although Schiller died in 1805. Goethe spoke highly of his old friends who have been in another world: "Schiller's unique creative talent lies in his ideal." It can be said that few people in German or foreign literary circles can match him. He has all the advantages of Byron ... the ideal of freedom runs through all Schiller's works. With Schiller's progress in culture and education, this ideal has also changed. In his youth, what influenced his own formation and revealed in his works was the freedom of the body; In old age, this becomes an ideal freedom. " Schiller's enthusiasm for freedom is probably related to the bondage of studying in a military school as a teenager-it is precisely because freedom is the most lacking thing in his life that he will double his desire. Until the end, I longed for not only the freedom of body, but also the freedom of mind. Of course, it was "this ideal ruined his life, because it forced him to put forward demands beyond his physical ability." In his later years, Schiller's life burden became heavier and heavier. In order to support his family, he had to write two plays every year and use alcohol to inspire him, which greatly damaged his health. So although Schiller was younger than Goethe, he died earlier than him-compared with Schiller, Goethe was a lucky old man. Similarly, in Schiller's works, there are more feelings of anxiety, pain and even struggle than Goethe.