Alkirocos [ancient Greece]
My heart, when you are flustered and helpless,
Hold on! Stand up and resist,
Beat off the enemy and advance towards the enemy in the hail of bullets,
Stand firm. Don't be complacent about your victory,
Don't lie at home crying if you fail.
I'm happy when I'm happy, and when I'm in trouble,
Don't be depressed. You know, this is the rhythm of life.
(Water translation, selected from the Dictionary of Appreciation of World Famous Poems)
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Alkirokos was a lyric satirist in Greece in the middle of the 7th century BC, and also a writer whose personal works can be determined in the earliest Greek poems. Because he first created iambic, and used iambic and iambic to form iambic four steps and iambic three steps to engage in creative practice, the ancient Greeks called him the first poet to use long and short sentences, and even thought that there was Homer in the epic and Alkirox in the lyrics.
As a soldier, the poet listed five common situations in the war and pointed out the correct choice as a soldier. Moreover, the last sentence "Aware of the rhythm of life" also shows the poet's profound insight into the life details, self-openness and strong survival character, which endows this poem with universal life significance and raises the requirements of common sense to the height of life philosophy.
As far as artistic skills are concerned, the success of this poem lies in the novelty of the choice of tangent points. The heart is originally a part of the human body. In this poem, the poet pulls it out as an objective entity independent of the self-subject, and calls it "you" in the second person, which makes the "heart" objective and personalized and gives people a vivid and cordial aesthetic feeling. Secondly, in the development of five wars, the poet always paid attention to the corresponding attitude that the "heart" should adopt, which not only faced up to the harsh reality, but also shone with the glory of ideals, objectively and fully demonstrated the educational function of ancient Greek poetry. In addition, the abrupt and straightforward beginning of the sentence and the neat ending of the sentence all enhance the artistic charm of this poem.
(Ren Wu)