Isabi's dove kiss is pure,
Any girl in Isabi,
Isabi, Indian pearls are still very valuable.
Issa is Bryus's favorite little Bach.
She mumbles, you'll think she's talking,
She knows happiness and sadness.
She sleeps next to her master's neck,
Her breath is so soft that she can't hear it;
Even if you can't hold your stomach,
She won't even feel sorry for the sheets,
Instead, it will scratch you, seduce you and warn you.
I want you to get her out of bed and pick her up.
This chaste little bitch is too virtuous.
Without understanding romance, where can we find it?
The groom deserves a gentle and virtuous woman?
For fear that she would be completely taken away by death,
Pu Bryus painted her as a picture,
Issa in the painting is so lifelike,
More similar than Issa herself.
If Issa is juxtaposed with this painting,
You'd think they were real dogs,
Or think that both graphs are graphs.
(translated by Bai Fei)
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Matthias is a representative figure in the creation of ancient Roman poems originated from ancient Greece. As the name implies, they were originally written on stone tablets, which usually require a high degree of conciseness. But many of Matthias' poems will still be laid out, and the length may not be short. This is related to his own concept of poetry. He believes that epigraph poetry must have "salt grains" and "bitterness", that is to say, the content comes first and the form is relatively second. This kind of artistic thought is controversial. Mathias' contemporary poets put forward that his poems are as long as inscriptions. However, Matthias' position in the creation of inscriptions is indisputable, and later people call him "the father of inscriptions".
The poems written by Matthias are all inscriptions, but they are very different from the general poems with inscriptions. He doesn't write mythical epics, but pays attention to real life, such as Issa. Matthias' life story is beyond doubt. Later generations know him mainly from his poems, but what we know about Issa is only the little bitch that his friend Pu Bryus loves. This poem can be described as a poem about objects.
"Catullus's sparrow, Isabi is still naughty". Catullus is a great lyric poet in ancient Rome. His poems are most famous for his love poems, and Matthias' favorite poet is Catullus. "Birds in Catullus" refers to the birds in several poems such as "Birds, My Lover's Pets" by Catullus, and is the object of Catullus's deep affection for his lover. Matthias takes this as the beginning of the poem, which can be said to be a parody of Catullus's poems, and also sets the love tone for the whole poem. The next two sentences further reveal the beautiful characteristics of Issa: purity and beauty, so she is more valuable than "Pearl" and is the owner's "favorite little Harper".
Later poems can be found that the references used in the poems to Issa are all "her", giving people a deliberately created illusion that Issa is a woman. Issa does have many qualities that are considered "human": Hum seems to be talking, knows happiness and sadness, sleeps next to her master's neck (like a lover), never pulls the sheets, but tries to inform her master. All of the above may be said that Issa is very spiritual in the eyes of her master. The following lines also seem to describe the qualities that a woman should have: chastity, virtue, ignorance and gentleness. This kind of "she" made the owner like it very much, but he was afraid of losing it, so he painted her as a painting, because the painting was filled with incomparable efforts, so it was lifelike.
Matthias believes that the primary factor of an inscription poem is content, and whether this content is enriched depends on whether it is ironic or not. This poem borrows Issa to express the poet's love view, and creates a gentle, virtuous and chaste "female" image from a man's point of view, so that such "female" can be truly loved and cherished by men. In ancient Rome, from the period of Augustus or even earlier, the social ideological trend of * * * began to prevail. Whether this poem by Matthias is too patriarchal or not, we can see that the poet hopes that the social trend can be reversed, advocates pure love and opposes indulgence. The first five sentences of the poem begin with Issa, and then most of them begin with "she", which is similar to folk songs, and the rhyme "a" is often rhymed at the end of the poem, forming a lively and interesting poetic style.
(Zhao Jiang)