Songji dedicated to the poet's lover Laura, similar to Dante's "New Life".
Laura, the heroine of the song
However, Petrarch's love for Laura has lifted the mysterious and sacred veil of Dante for Bayar Reese. It is a kind of pursuit of beauty based on human nature, a kind of love of unity of spirit and body. It is different from Christian asceticism, from Dante's love, and from the sensual pleasure of ancient Greece.
Songji songji introduced.
The collection of songs uses sonnets and is written in Italian. On the basis of inheriting the chivalrous poems of Provence and the love poems of Italian "gentle new style" poetry school, it removes obscurity and is close to reality.
He is good at using exaggerated metaphors to express the sadness and despair of a man who has a crush on him. His emotional description is delicate and true, and his style is fresh and natural.
Songji is the first masterpiece that shows the welcome and pain of secular life since the Middle Ages, and depicts love as a real emotion.
Under the influence of this work, lyric poetry has become an important literary form to express personal feelings, and sonnets have also become an important poetic style in the poetry world.
Petrarch used Latin as a tool to spread ideas and his mother tongue as a carrier of personal feelings to write lyric poems.
His best work is a collection of songs written in Italian.
* * * A total of 366 poems were collected, including 14 poems in 3 17, 29 free poems, 9 six-line poems, 7 narrative poems and 4 short poems. Apart from a few political lyrics, it is mainly the poet who sings the poems of his lover Laura. Since the first day when 1327 met Laura, Petrarch has been writing poems to express his love and yearning for Laura for decades. After Laura died of the Black Death, the poet wrote poems to mourn. Therefore, the collection of songs is divided into two parts with Laura's death as the main line: the first part describes the poet's passion for love and the guilt and fear that he can't get rid of because he enjoys secular happiness under the bondage of asceticism; The second part gives vent to the grief of losing her lover and depicts Laura's dream of comforting the poet. Try to translate a poem into a quotation.
"Golden Hair Gone with the Wind" is a sonnet, and the poet recalls seeing Laura for the first time.
Golden hair fluttered in the wind,
Roll up thousands of soft headdresses,
It's hard to find beautiful eyes now,
Release the bright luster;
I saw her show sympathy,
I don't know if it's true or not;
Because the fire of love is in my heart,
What's the surprise if there is a fire?
Sweet words touch people's hearts,
Extraordinary demeanor, beauty and elegance,
She is an angel who came to earth.
Seeing the goddess from the sky,
She will always stay in my heart,
Although the bow gallops, can an arrow wound leave no scar?
The lyrics boldly praise love, express the desire for happiness, and reflect the humanists' new world outlook of despising medieval feudal morality and loving life. Petrarch inherited the traditional theme of praising love from the chivalrous poems of Provence and Italian "gentle new style" poems, removed the implied meaning and mysterious symbols, avoided the shortcomings of idolization of characters, and created a real and moving image of Laura by realistic means, making it both in form and spirit, which is not only a perfect woman who meets the ideal, but also a lover he really loves. Laura is no longer the pretentious and unattainable lady in Knight's poems, but a simple, cheerful, beautiful and lovely woman of the new era. She became the embodiment of humanist ideal beauty and love. Petrarch pays attention to describing personal inner changes, and is good at describing colorful love experiences. He writes about happiness and satisfaction as well as disappointment and pain in love, making love poems close to life, blending scenes with scenes, organically combining sensitivity to the beauty of nature with subtle feelings for lovers, and praising Laura with the beauty of scenery. He created a new humanistic lyric poem with new ideas and new skills.
The number of political lyrics mixed in the Song Dynasty is small, but it is of great significance. Some poems lashed out at the church, denouncing it as "a factory that makes fraud, a cradle of evil and a hell for the living", pointing the finger at the general representative of feudal forces, showing the poet's fearless courage and fighting spirit in the dark. In the poem Noble Spirit, the poet regards ancient Rome as a model of civilization and compares it with the reality of corruption and evil. In To Italy, he called on the people to inherit the virtues of ancient Rome and bravely resist German mercenaries. These poems all reflect the poet's unique reverence for ancient Roman society and his pride as a descendant of ancient Rome. My Italy, the most famous political poem in the song collection, is full of patriotic enthusiasm. The poet wants to pour out his ups and downs and hopes for the motherland with "my song" and accuse the monarchs of the city-state of inviting wolves into the room for power and interests, which has torn Italy apart and constantly suffered foreign aggression, leaving a fatal wound to Italy's beautiful body. The poet called on his compatriots to fight for independence and unity: "once virtue takes up arms,/declares war on barbarism,/the day of victory is no longer far away;" /The ancient morality has not disappeared,/It will live in the hearts of the Italian people forever. " .
There are profound contradictions in the poet's heart. He loves life and nature, pursues love and honor and longs for human happiness, but he can't completely break away from Christian asceticism. He has patriotic enthusiasm and national consciousness, but he despises the masses; The anguish and sadness caused by him are also poured out in the collection of songs. All these truly reflect the ideological contradictions of humanists in the early Renaissance, and also reflect the historical characteristics of social transformation.
The style of the song collection is fresh and natural, smooth and harmonious, and the rhythm is elegant. Petrarch achieved the artistic perfection of sonnet form through long-term practice. His sonnets have become an important poetic style in European poetry and have been handed down.