Kissing the ground quietly,
Attracting the earth and colorful flowers,
I miss him in my dream.
The breeze is blowing in the fields,
The ears of wheat swayed gently,
The forest is whispering,
The night is so clear.
At this moment, my heart
Spread their wings,
Flying over this quiet land,
It's like flying home
(translated by Bai Fei)
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Compared with the rationalism of the Enlightenment, romanticism pays more attention to the exploration of emotional sensitivity. Eichendorff's poetry creation inherited the tradition of European romantic literature. His poems are simple in form and have the characteristics of folk songs, emphasizing the unity of soul and nature, full of the desire to return to nature, and also implying a strong intention of "arousing national consciousness".
Moonlit Night is praised by many critics as a model of German romantic poetry, and many musicians have a special liking for it, and have created 4 1 kinds of music for it. The whole poem always echoes the poet's response to the two themes of "fantasy" and "nature" in romantic literature.
The first paragraph of this poem describes the poet's reverie of heaven and earth in the moonlit night. In German, the sky is masculine and the earth is feminine. The sky once kissed the earth with tender love, and now the earth misses him in her dream. Part of speech in grammar and personification in rhetoric set each other off. Personification seems to be empty, but it is also empty and real, highlighting the flowery earth. The second paragraph, the scenery of dyeing pens on the earth, describes in detail the softness of wheat ears in the field, the light sound in the forest, the slight dynamics when the breeze blows, and sets off the silence of the night. In the third paragraph of the poem, an imaginary mind appears. This imaginary mind spreads its wings, flies over the night sky and the quiet land, and flies to the hometown. So, does the poet's "hometown" refer to the real hometown, or does it refer to the vain return of the soul?
Eichendorff, like other romantic writers, likes to describe nature with an idealistic pen, and the "hometown" in Moonlit Night also has this strong idealistic color. The poet's deep attachment to nature is actually full of longing for returning to nature, and his longing for nature also reflects his disappointment and sorrow for reality. The poet wandering in the moonlit night decided that nature and the countryside were the hometown of his soul. His wandering is not only for the beautiful and quiet nature, but also for finding a place to live for the soul in reality. The place where the soul can live is the place where the whole German national culture takes root. The whole poem is neat in structure, seemingly simple in content but profound in artistic conception, and reveals a faint sense of loneliness in beautiful yearning and realistic pursuit.
(Hu Xiaohua)