The aesthetic value of sports ode, like all literature and art, is based on artistry. People read literary works on the basis of artistic image and form, thus producing artistic thinking activities full of emotion, association and imagination, and achieving emotional beauty, sensory beauty and spiritual beauty; At the same time, people's physical and mental feelings are also well cultivated and purified in this process. At the Olympic Games, at various large, medium and small sports meetings held at home and abroad, and at the "Olympic Spring" party held during the Spring Festival in China 1988, sports carols are always enthusiastically recited by athletes or actors. The reason lies in its profound cognitive and educational functions and its artistic beauty.
Opening ceremony of the Fifth Winter Olympics
The aesthetic function of literary works generally has two components. The first is the theme content factor. The theme, object, image, emotion and ideal expressed by writers and poets are healthy, positive, sincere and true, so they can give people a beautiful feeling in content. Luacs, a famous literary critic in the former Soviet Union, said: "Great artists have always been pioneers of human progress. Through their own creation, they revealed the interrelationships between things that were previously unknown-after a long time, talents in science and philosophy were able to express these connections in an exact form. " As a pioneer of modern Olympic Games, Coubertin wrote Ode to Sports, which is a very important theme. It is frank, sincere and enthusiastic; With the strategically located and romantic creation, the Olympic movement has opened up a vast field in front of readers. Moreover, endless scientific and philosophical poems shine in this vast field.
What constitutes the aesthetic function of literature is also a formal factor. Poetry is the most typical language art, and poetry must have vivid artistic language, which not only has refreshing formal beauty, but also can express colorful emotional feelings. The language of sports ode has a unique artistic style. "Sports" was originally a conceptual term in the cultural category, but the "sports" in Ode to Sports has been completely poetic, visualized and personalized. The author compares "sports" to "god", "radiant messenger" and "dawn on the top of the mountain", and compares it to "courage", "honor", "progress" and "peace" and personalizes it, thus highly and vividly evaluating the function and role of sports in modern human society. Metaphor and personification are both poems.
Recite sports carols
The two methods commonly used in language to create images are easy to arouse readers' emotional waves and arouse people's aesthetic pleasure, which conforms to the law of thinking in images in artistic creation. Of course, this is not just a matter of artistic technique, but is determined by the poet's noble personality and emotional attitude: can't we see from Ode to Sports that Coubertin's revival of the Olympic Movement focuses on human civilization and progress?
As mentioned above, poetry is the art of imagery, but in order to express complex social life and human emotions, poetry also needs to raise individuals to a universal, essential and inevitable height and sublimate emotions to rationality. However, this rationality is not an abstract concept or concept, but a principle in image and emotion.
A passage in Ode to Sports goes like this: "Ah, sports, you are courage! The whole point of muscle strength is to dare to fight. If not, what's the use of being agile and strong? What are the benefits of muscle development? What we call courage is not recklessness like an adventurer, but deliberation. "
This poem expresses "courage" from both positive and negative aspects. Metaphor, personification, statement, questioning, affirmation and negation, argument and reasoning, and the internal rhythm and rhythm of language constitute the artistic image of poetic beauty, and the philosophy of "courage" is expressed through this beautiful artistic image. This unity of poetry and philosophy enables people to gain both beneficial ideological enlightenment and artistic beauty in reading.
Sports ode
Ode to Sports eulogizes sports and expresses the Olympic ideal, but with straightforward words, indifferent spirit and passionate feelings, which can be described as "high aspirations and high spirits". It is in this style that the poet wrote the strongest voice of the times and expressed the heroic spirit and indestructible power of the Olympic Movement. It makes sense to adopt prose poetry style in sports ode. The style of prose poetry provides the author with the freedom to control his writing style. The whole poem is freely and flexibly described, described, discussed and lyrical, and the words in the poem are as elastic and fluid as "movement"; Sentences are long or short, paragraphs (stanzas) are large or small, and the rhythm is slow or urgent, all of which are based on the needs of content and feelings, resulting in the "prose beauty of poetry" praised by people. When we read such works, we only feel the rhythm of words, lines and paragraphs, as if we were in the Olympic Games, and we felt the rush of life and the agitation of feelings.
Obviously, ode to sports has the sublimity of poetic beauty. Sublime, as an aesthetic category, objectively exists in natural objects and people's practical activities. The sublimity in poetry is not only a true revelation of the contradiction and hard struggle between the object sublimity-reality and practice, but also a moving embodiment of the struggle turmoil and pleasure in the subject sublimity-aesthetic feeling, which achieves the unity of regularity and purpose. The most prominent manifestations of the lofty poetic beauty of Ode to Sports are: eulogizing the major events in the historical process of the Olympic Games, shaping the image of "man" in Das Kapital, and praising the essential strength, truth, goodness and beauty of man; And it is combined with all the talents and wisdom of the author's generosity, poetry, narration, description and lyricism. It well embodies the high combination of social and historical analysis and aesthetic application. This is a poetic beauty and lofty realm. When we read Ode to Sports, we will feel a positive pleasure like climbing a mountain and facing the sea: we will naturally have an impulse and yearning for the great power of the Olympic Movement, and we will naturally have the motivation to pursue truth and the future.