Petofi [Hungary]
I fantasize about you in a hundred pictures,
My love is in a hundred images.
If you were an island, I would like to be a sailboat.
I sailed around you enthusiastically.
Dear girl! I think so:
If you are a holy church,
My love is ivy,
Hold you stubbornly along the wall.
If you are the Carpathian Mountains, I am a cloud.
I want to draw a thunderbolt and break your heart.
If you are a rose bush, I am a nightingale.
I sing beside you.
(translated by Xing Wansheng)
Petfi Sándor (1823-1849) was the greatest Hungarian national poet and glorious democratic revolutionary fighter in the first half of the 9th century. His life is short, and he only lived to be 26 years old. It took only seven years to create, but he left us more than 800 lyric poems, 8 narrative poems, and more than 800,000 words of novels, political essays, dramas, travel notes, letters and other works. His creation is not only the peak of Hungarian classical literature, but also occupies an important position in the history of world literature.
Petofi's love poems are closely related to his love life experience. He himself said, "Love is the only source of my poetry". What is worth mentioning here is his love with Julia maesa and the poems written for Julia maesa. 1On September 8th, 846, the poet met a beautiful girl, Sendley You Liya, at a dance, and fell in love with her strongly. You Liya may have fallen in love with her. You Liya's father was a rich earl, and his stubbornness and prejudice brought great pain to the poet. But the power of love is great. The couple broke through many obstacles and finally got married on September 8, 1847. Petofi met Julia maesa and died in July 1849. In less than three years, * * * wrote 102 love poems, which fully demonstrated the poet's yearning for love and pursuit of a happy life. With the coming of revolutionary struggle, his love poems are more and more intertwined with strong patriotism and revolutionary heroism, flashing the ideological light of revolutionary soldiers.
This poem is lively and cheerful, describing the poet's passionate pursuit of a girl, sweeping away the atmosphere of depression and hesitation in early love poems, but full of self-confidence and showing a spirit of persistent pursuit. In this poem, the poet used his rich imagination to imagine his lover as a hundred images, and love was among them. The poet first compared his lover to an island and himself to a ship. Ships sail on the island like magnets attract iron. The great attraction of lovers and the poet's single-mindedness for love can't be expressed in words. The poet compares himself to ivy clinging to the church wall. The church is a place where people worship and is sacred. When the poet compares his lover to a church, he compares his lover to his idol. Ivy is a plant with strong climbing ability and vitality. The poet compares himself to an Ivy League, which shows his persistence and tenacity in pursuing his lover. The poet compares his lover to a high mountain and himself to a flowing cloud. Just as seagulls are attached to the sea, horses are attached to the grassland, and white clouds are always attached to the mountains. They are not only congenial, but also ambitious. This progressive metaphor, it seems that the author is not enough, but also attracted a thunderbolt and hurt the lover's heart. According to Greek mythology, Cupid has an arrow, and whoever hits it will burst into fanatical love. This thunderbolt is Cupid's arrow, and the poet wants to use it to arouse the love of lovers. Finally, the poet compares his lover to a charming rose bush, and compares himself to a nightingale, singing endlessly around the bush: singing ideals and love.
This poem uses metaphors throughout, with beautiful artistic conception and sincere feelings. What is compared and thought about is universal in nature and gives people a cordial feeling. The expression of feelings is almost straightforward, full of feelings, and there is no sentimental wind.