Dante [Italy]
When my girl greets others,
How gentle and humble,
Everyone's tongue trembled without making a sound,
I dare not look her in the eye.
She heard compliments as she passed by,
Dressed simply, kind and moving,
Like an elf falling from the sky,
Show miracles to people on the ground.
No matter who looks at her, she is happy.
So as to convey endless love with eyes,
Inexperienced people will be confused,
It seems that from her mouth,
Move an elf, charming,
Say "sigh" to the soul.
(translated by Qian Hongjia)
Dante (1265— 132 1) is the most representative Italian writer in the transitional period from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. He is a poet, politician, theologian and linguist. Besides the immortal Divine Comedy, there are other works, such as On Imperialism, Banquet, On Folklore, Lyrics, New Life and Poems.
The poem "When My Girl Greets Others" is selected from "Freshman". Novelty is Dante's masterpiece in his early years, which mainly describes the poet's love for a woman named Beatrice. * * * Lyrics 3 1 song, connected into a whole by prose, and explain the origin and significance of each poem; "New Life" represents the highest achievement of the "gentle new style" poetry school. This "tender new style" poem was sent to Italy in the13rd century. It inherited and absorbed the tradition of Sicilian poetry school and Provence lyric poetry in southern France at that time, with the theme of praising secular love and praising women.
In order to let us know more accurately the feelings expressed by Dante in his love poems, let's listen to a story first.
There is a custom in Florence, a famous Italian city, to hold a spring banquet every May. When Dante was nine years old, his parents took him to a friend's party. No one expected that little Dante fell in love with his master's daughter, who was about his age.
Betsy. Since then, this beautiful and pure Betsy, like a "little angel", has always appeared in Dante's heart. Nine years later, Dante and Betsy meet again, and Betsy appears again, which makes the fire of love in Dante's heart burn brightly until death do us part! Dante was afraid that others would see the secret in his heart, pretending to be in love with other women and writing love poems. Because of this misunderstanding, Becky ignored Dante and even laughed at him. Later, Becky married a banker, who was also a noble family; Unfortunately, the beauty died young, and Becky died of illness at the age of 24. Dante was so sad that he wrote many love poems in memory of Bessie, which were quickly collected and published. This is "new life"; In the poem, Betsy is called "beating Li Qi", which means "a blessed woman".
In the poem "My Girl Greets Others", the poet captures an extremely small and common action in life-salute and greeting, so as to show the beauty and virtue of Beat Ritchie.
When Dante met Betsy again on the bridge nine years later, Betsy's beautiful and noble appearance and gentle and modest behavior fascinated Dante, but the angelic and holy light shining on Betsy made Dante afraid to look at her or even speak. Dante's inspiration for writing this poem comes from his own experience and understanding.
In the first half of this poem, Wen Ya, the girl he loves, is described through the poet's eyes. In front of her beautiful face with the light of goodness, everyone was too surprised to speak and dared not look directly at her shining image of holiness. However, although she is outstanding and perfect, she is not proud and reserved, but kind and friendly. So beautiful and perfect, it is no wonder that people are amazed to be a heavenly girl!
The first half of the poem mainly describes the image of the girl through external language actions, while the second half of the poem follows the description of the first half, further expressing the spiritual feelings brought to the world by the girl the poet loves. The girl's kindness, kindness and fraternity give people a novel feeling. Faced with such a holy woman, people not only marvel at her, but also worship her. There will be no impure thoughts. Taking the poet's eyes as the point of view, and the sharp contrast between the girl and the world, the whole poem depicts Beat Ritchie in Dante's mind, an idealized and sanctified woman. This image runs through Dante's love poems. In Dante's view, Bede Richie not only has all the beauty of secular women, but also seems to have a power from heaven that can purify people's souls and arouse people's sense of sacredness.
Therefore, from this poem, we can also see the duality of Dante as "the first poet in the new century" and "the last poet in the middle ages": on the one hand, he boldly and affectionately expressed his thrilling earthly love for the defeated Ricky; On the other hand, it tries to abstract this kind of love and beauty, making it a religious and transcendental love in heaven.