The night is so silent,
The whole world falls into sweet sleep.
I am telling endless pain,
Balloon Sky and Gloria are listening.
The morning sun is slowly emerging, and
The Oriental Gate reveals a crimson flame.
I sighed again and again and sobbed.
Last night, my sorrow increased.
The sun is on its splendid throne, and
All kinds of light are shining directly on the earth.
my tears are dripping and my sobs are choking.
As the night falls again, I feel sad again.
Tossing and turning, my heart and intestines want to be destroyed.
God ignores me and she doesn't respond.
(translated by Dong Yansheng)
Note:
Gloria: the goddess of flowers in Greek mythology.
Appreciation
Miguel de Cervantes had a bumpy and legendary life, participated in the Spanish naval battle and spent many years as a prisoner in Algeria. As an outstanding writer of Spanish humanistic literature, Cervantes' literary achievements are mainly in novels, including the collection of admonitory novels and Don Quixote. At the same time, however, this writer also showed extraordinary poetic talent, and many excellent poems mostly appeared in his masterpiece Don Quixote. Don Quixote is famous for its peculiar imagination and creativity, which is also clearly reflected in The Sonnets.
This is a Petrarch sonnet with a clear theme and a sad tone. The whole poem can be divided into four stanzas, the first eight lines are abba abba, and the last six lines are cde dce. The whole poem implies two clues: one is the description of the psychological activities of the suffering hero, which is a bright line; The other is closely related to time, which is a dark line. The two clues cross each other and echo back and forth.
in the first verse, there is a strong contrast between the lines before and after. In the quiet night, people are asleep in their dreams, but the protagonist is hard to sleep, telling God and the goddess Gloria about her pain. The protagonist's pain may be the feeling that life is short, youth is fleeting, or the pain of emotional parting. Gloria is the goddess in charge of flowers in Greek mythology, and flowers represent youth, beautiful years and love between men and women.
In the second verse, the time has changed, and the night passes and the morning sun rises. But in sharp contrast, the hero's sorrow has not subsided, but has increased.
As time goes by, the sun appears, rises in the sky and returns to the night. We can find that the hero's sadness is getting worse step by step, from sobbing in a low voice to hoarseness in the throat until the last heartbroken, which gradually deepens the theme of the poem.
The sun in the poem symbolizes active vitality and vigorous vitality. However, life is short and youth is fleeting. This is an eternal topic that poets including Cervantes pay attention to. Ovid's years are gone forever, and the roses are dying, leaving only abandoned thorns. herrick said, "Time is always flying; /The bud that smiles at you today,/will die tomorrow "and" Once the blood is exhausted, I'm afraid that time will get worse day by day ",and Marville's metaphysical metaphors about the sex of shy lovers in the grave, the time of chewing youth slowly and the chariot of flying wings are all about time. Time has powerful destructive power, which endows people with life, but death is the inevitable end of life and the fate that human beings can't get rid of. Therefore, "God ignores her, but she doesn't respond"-this ending at the end of the poem can't be redeemed after all, which deepens the sad atmosphere of the work, thus reflecting the poet's pessimistic outlook on life and leaving us with deep thinking.
(Wang Lu)