Song of Warsaw/Song of Warsaw
Henry w longfellow (1807- 1882)
Although some people say that the material of this poem "mainly comes from the works of Skur Kraft, the author lacks direct life experience;" The rhythm of the poem completely imitates the Finnish epic Calvara [1], but no one can doubt that it is an epic with great momentum, ups and downs of emotions and sometimes humor. Of course, compared with Homer's Iliad, it is not enough in both length and detail. The poem is romantic, but slightly neutral. "Allen,
However, it is still a great epic. This epic about the national heroes of North American Indians even influenced the modern Czech composer dvorak (Antonin dvorak 184 1- 1904). In his Ninth Symphony in E minor, people can hear the echo of human soul, which is nostalgia and sadness for hometown.
Hometown is not only the habitat of humble human beings, but also the spiritual home of human beings. When Hai Warsaw took his people ashore to welcome the white people and told them to be kind to these guests from afar, perhaps he had a premonition about the future fate of his people. Therefore, he experienced the death of his friends-musicians Kibiabos and Hercules Quasinde, the disaster of "hunger" and the death of his wife-until he saw white people set foot on their land and finally left (disappeared and died). He practiced his father's prediction, and when he arrived in the west wind field, it became a northwest wind-blowing to his hometown.
Longfellow and nathaniel hawthorne (1804) are classmates, both of whom belong to a genus and two figures in the history of American literature. Longfellow's poems were also highly respected in China before 1990, but they seem to have disappeared in recent years. Let's make an asymmetric comparison here. Longfellow's poems are compared with Hawthorne's novels. Although their literature is full of romanticism, Hawthorne's words are more fresh and profound, with far-reaching artistic conception, such as The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House with Seven Gables. At this point, Longfellow's Song of the Sea Warsaw is unattainable, which is probably the reason why Edgar Alan Po said that his poems have no lasting appeal, and whether this is related to Longfellow's later influence by the French naturalist Emily Zora is still unknown.
However, the opening and closing chapters of Song of Hai Warsaw are almost perfect, at least in structure, which is quite tragic in ancient Greece, such as the Oracle-like prophecy of Hai Warsaw's father and his recent inevitable death fate, similar to the * * * characteristics of ancient Greek tragic figures.
After reading Song of the Sea Warsaw, it seems that Guo Moruo's Goddess is another comparative angle. Goddess is highly respected in the history of modern literature in China. However, after reading it, I think its significance of the times is greater than that of literature, and its magnificent warrior feelings drown out the literary artistic conception. In particular, the goddess was written in 1920s. In the literature of that era, either Hu Shi's calm political theory or Lu Xun's sharp novels. In such an atmosphere, "Goddess" does have a different kind of atmosphere-coming from Feng Ling and flying against the wind, perhaps only Liang Qichao's "On China Youth" has a feeling and atmosphere.
At all ages
Everyone's heart is human.
Longfellow once wrote such a poem, which is what a poet should feel when writing, and readers should have the same resonance when reading it.