Abstract: Allen? Poe's poems are exquisite in form, gorgeous in rhetoric and beautiful in rhyme. Fairy Tales on Allen? Edgar Allan Poe's subjective feelings are injected into a new myth, and then a complete poem with an active soul is formed, which shows that Edgar Allan Poe wants to pursue a kind of "paradise beauty", a kind of sacred and classical beauty.
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W? s？ Mao Mu said, "Allen? Poe wrote the most beautiful poems that America has never seen ... Poetry gives you pure beauty, and their beauty is unparalleled. (1) in Germany, Ellen? Poe attracted the attention of Nietzsche, Rilke and Kafka. Nietzsche regards him as Byron? A demon poet like Miao Sai, a tortured great soul, said that he tried to escape from the reality of suffering and seek refuge in the world he imagined. Rilke praised his spirit of exploration and creation; Kafka sympathized with his experience and paid deep respect to his extraordinary imagination and creativity. Thomas? Hardy praised Poe for being the first to realize the great possibility of English in expressing ideas and creating poetic rhythm. Lawrence praised the psychological depth of Poe's works and pointed out that his works profoundly described the psychological disintegration of modern people, especially neurotic modern people.
Etymologically speaking, mythology comes from Greek mythology, which means "writing" or "oral language". The generic term of myth comes from Greek myth+logos, which means "story". Homer and other ancient Greek poets used myths and logos in these senses. The authoritative Oxford Dictionary explains myth as follows: myth stays in thought and ends between reason and belief or game. It has its own life. All thinking is based on myth; Tragedy looks for themes from myths, while lyric poets look for images from myths. Because of myth, sacred things lost their territory; The whole field of thought is open and reflective; Because of myth, poetry can become wisdom.
Frye, a literary critic, pointed out that myth is a model of all literary works and a basic story that is often repeated in all great works. After the Renaissance in Europe, myths played an even more important role in literature. Poets and writers used fairy tales as their creative materials, especially those classic poets in the history of British and American literature, from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Tennyson, Xuecai, Byron, Longfellow, Eliot and Pound, all of whom got inspiration from myths, refined their ideas and themes and created many immortal masterpieces. For example, Shakespeare's troilus and Cressida, Milton's Paradise Lost, Keats' Endymion, Shelley's adonis, Eliot's The Waste Land, Pound's poems and so on. Therefore, in order to understand poetry, we must trace back to the source and improve cultural literacy, so as to have a deeper understanding of literary works in a specific cultural background. Allen. Poe borrowed fairy tales and legends, combined with romantic techniques of fantasy exaggeration, built a colorful and magical artistic realm, and shaped a profound artistic image. When you read his poems, you can always appreciate the symbolic meaning and mystery. Among them, Helen and Annabel are the most prominent. Li, crow, etc.
First of all: discuss fairy tales and Ellen? The Sacred, Classical and Distant Beauty of Poe's Poetry. As we all know, Helen has always been the embodiment of beauty in the history of western literature and culture. Homer's epic fully displays Helen's beauty. There are often a long list of adjectives in front of Helen's name to describe her beauty. Such as "robe fluttering", "white arms" and "beauty". In addition, the author also praised her beauty: "She is like an immortal goddess", "the best among women", "This beautiful woman" and "Helen who came out of her noble bedroom with a fragrant smell is as bright and soft as Aphrodite who loves to laugh". Homer's praise of Helen's natural beauty makes Helen abstract as a symbol of beauty in western culture. Dante in the divine comedy? "Hell" once wrote: "Look, Helena (author Helen), for her sake, the years of disaster have lasted for so long." Later, he wrote: "After listening to the teacher recite the names of ancient heroes and beauties, I felt pity in my heart, as if I were confused again." [2] In the poet's mind, Helen is regarded as the embodiment of beauty, and between the lines, it is full of the poet's deep affection for love. Helen is a stunning beauty in Greek mythology. She was extremely beautiful and married Menelaus, king of Sparta in southern Greece. Later, Paris, the prince of Troy, was ordered to have an accident in Greece and be a guest at the king of Sparta. With the help of Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty, he lured Helen away while menes was away. It was because of the ships that Troy was destroyed. Allen. Poe used this beautiful and moving myth to pursue the sacred beauty of poetry and wrote to Helen. "Helen, your beauty is in my eyes, just like the three-masted ship of the Nicea in the past, sailing on the fragrant sea, leisurely sending the sleepy crew who are tired and drifting back to their hometown coast. I have long been used to floating on the angry sea. Your elegant face, your curly hair and your water-like charm take me back, back to Greece and Rome, back to the glory and glory of the past. Look! In the window as bright as a niche, I saw you standing like a statue with an agate lamp in your hand! Goddess sage, the holy land is your hometown! " The whole poem is divided into three sections. The first section is Allen? Poe compared Helen's beauty to a floating sail, carrying a tired wanderer across the fragrant sea and returning to his hometown, giving birth to a distant and comfortable aesthetic feeling. In the second section, the embodiment of classical beauty gradually approached in the poet's field of vision. Finally, the poet saw "your elegant face, your hair and your goddess-like charm", expressing the peace and tranquility in Poe's heart, as if enjoying "returning to Greece and Rome in the past, returning to the glory and glory in the past." In the third quarter, the poet's vision was broadened again. "Look! In the window as bright as a niche,/I see you standing like a statue,/you have an agate lamp in your hand! " The beauty of simplicity, classicality and remoteness makes Ran Ran feel quiet and pure in people's hearts. The poet can't help but sigh that you are the goddess of soul, and you must be "from a sacred place, a beautiful fairy land." From this perspective, does Helen's myth add Allen? The charm of Poe's poetry lies in that Poe's poetry makes Helen's story more vital. Read Allen? Poe's classic works contain more "past"-we can see more truth and feel more shock from it.
Secondly, discuss fairy tales and Ellen? "The Beauty of Heaven" in Poe's Poems. Allen. In paragraph 14 of The Principles of Poetry, Poe said: "If a person only uses poetry to reproduce the sight, sound, smell, color and taste that he feels the same as other parts of the world, no matter how passionate his feelings are and how vivid his description is, I have to say that he still can't prove that he is worthy of the sacred title of poet, and there are still things he hasn't touched in the distance. We still have an unsolved thirst, but he failed to point out the clear spring to quench it. This desire belongs to the immortality of human beings. It is the result and symbol of human reproduction. It is the moth's yearning for the stars. It is not only our understanding of the beauty of the world, but also the crazy pursuit of the beauty of heaven. " [3] What is the immortal thirst-quenching spring belonging to human beings in the principle of poetry? Is there anything in the distance that he hasn't touched yet? I think this is an ancient myth and legend. Allen. Poe combined myth with real life, god with man, and constructed a realistic and illusory poetic realm. Like Annabel? Li: The main idea of this poem is that a long time ago, in a country by the sea, the poet and a girl named Annabel Lee fell in love deeply. Although they are teenagers, their love exceeds that of ordinary people, and they are even jealous by angels, who took Annabel Lee's life with the help of the cold wind. But in the poet's mind, his love with Annabel Lee is sacred, intense and eternal. Whether it is an angel in heaven or a demon in hell, they can take the life of their loved ones, but they can't take the hearts they love each other. The moonlight in Ming Che accompanied the poet to dream of the beautiful Annabel Lee, and the twinkling starlight made the poet seem to see Annabel Lee's bright eyes. Whenever night falls and the tide rises, the poet comes to the cemetery of his lover by the sea, sleeps with him and listens to the waves of the sea with her. The poet's unique words, in the form of telling myths, bring readers to a wonderful world far away in time and space. Poets use kingdoms instead of places to show that their love stories are sacred and inviolable. Replacing "girl" with "girl" makes readers feel the sanctity and innocence of girl. Using "sepulcher" instead of "grave" gives readers a sense of sacredness and mystery. Replacing "heart" with "soul" makes people feel sad in the depths of the soul. In addition, Poe wrote in Annabel? Li borrowed the legend of Seraphim, a fairy with wings in the sky, to express the "beauty of heaven" in his poems. Seraphim comes from the second verse of the sixth chapter of Isaiah in the Bible. SERAPHIM, or "Seraphim", translated as Seraphim in the Bible, is the tallest of all the nine-order angels, that is, the angel who praises God. * * * has three pairs of wings. Poe's creation with the help of myths and legends is not only an artistic skill, but also a positive factor in his romantic creation technique and an important part of his style. Because poets yearn for an ideal world, which is hard to find in real life, the extensive use of myths in their works is only a comfort for them to try to change the status quo with the help of God, and can also make their works different and deviate from tradition. Fairy tales make romantic poetry more attractive. Can we still taste Ellen in the poem Venus? The "beauty of heaven" in Poe's poems: "It was a midsummer night, at midnight: the stars were shining faintly, and each one was in orbit; Leng Yue is brighter than the stars. The stars are her slaves. She hangs high in the sky, and the moonlight floats on the sea. I looked up and stared for a while, looking at her cold moonlight; Cold air attacks people-I am so sad-a white cloud floats away like a shroud, so I look to you, the supreme Venus, you are far away in Tianhe, and your light will make me cherish it even more. Because happiness is in my heart. It is your dignity and nobility in the night sky that makes me more grateful. It is your distant starlight, not the humble glory of Leng Yue. " (Translated by Cao Minglun) In Greek and Roman mythology, Venus is the embodiment of love and beauty-the goddess Venus. Venus is her Roman name, which means "beautiful painting". In Greek mythology, her name is Aphrodite, which means "rising bubble", because it is said that she was born in a bubble at sea. Venus has the most perfect figure and appearance in Roman mythology and has always been regarded as the highest symbol of female physical beauty. Her beauty envied many goddesses and charmed countless immortals. In the poem Venus, Allen? Poe expressed his yearning and admiration for the beautiful God and poured out his pursuit of the beauty of heaven. Allen. Poe's poetry can leave a deep impression on us because of its mythical nature and extraordinary magic or mystery.
Allen. Edgar Allan Poe organized a long-standing myth into a new poem, which melted into a new myth under the perfusion of the poet's subjective feelings, and then formed a complete poem with an active soul, completing the extraordinary beauty of the poem. Take The Raven as an example: The Raven is the masterpiece of this theme. A young man living alone lost his lover. On a stormy night, it was dark. He thought of his dead lover and tried to dispel his inner pain with books, but he couldn't. Suddenly there was a faint knock at the door, and he summoned up his courage to open it. There is nothing outside except the dark night. When he heard the knock on the door again, he opened the window and found a crow standing on the statue by the window. Young people want to use crows to dilute their worries, and crows say "never live beyond life"; He wanted to forget his lost sweetheart, and the crow repeatedly said "never"; He tried to catch his lost sweetheart, but the crow still replied, "never"; He tried to drive away the ominous bird, but the crow kept repeating "never" ... This cold and mechanical negative reply almost drove the young man crazy. The crow seems to be a symbol of his unfulfilled wish and becomes a demon. "Never" has been tormenting the young man's heart and plunging him into deep despair. In order to make the myth of crow more fascinating, Poe borrowed an image-Athena statue. Athena is an ancient god whose functions include natural forces and all aspects of people's daily life. All kinds of ancient myths and legends are related to Zeus, and Athena became the daughter of Zeus. Her birth is very strange. She didn't come out of her mother's stomach, but jumped out of Zeus's head, and Zeus became her father. She won the battle with the militaristic Poseidon for the patron saint of Athens, a city later named after her. She gave the Athenians an olive tree. Since then, the olive tree has become an important crop of the Athenians and a symbol of peace. Athena is the goddess of wisdom. She is the embodiment of intelligence, courage and wisdom. As we all know, crow is a completely different kind of bird. When people meet crows, they always avoid them, because they have been a symbol of bad luck and bad omen for thousands of years. However, Poe chose crows to create another myth-gloomy atmosphere, flickering flames, dark night sky, dim light outside the window and the crow's gloomy and harsh cry, creating a horrible atmosphere. Even the poem itself is infected by a strong "air" and controlled by a kind of magic. Athena is the embodiment of wisdom. However, when a young man living alone lost his sweetheart, he asked one after another. Its "never look back" answer is an oath-never miss the past, a prophecy-never forget the past. This wise bird is only a part of its own height; It flew out of his sleeping body, from the nightmare he wrote on his desk. It is the spirit of his inner impulse and the messenger of his mysterious communication with everything. Now that it has escaped him, it will leave, "never to come back." It is the myth of crow that expresses the poet's longing for life and pursuit of love. It contains the poet's philosophical thought of transcending life and pursuing immortality and eternity. The ancients said that the beauty of poetry lies in implication. Thinking is subtle, its sustenance lies in unspeakable, and its reference lies in solvable and unsolvable. (Ye Xie: original poem). The charm of The Raven lies in its "infinite meaning".
Conclusion:
Myth is a literary type handed down orally, and it is the soil and source of later literature. First of all, the ability to create myths is inherent in the process of thinking, which meets the basic needs of human beings. Secondly, whether from the historical or psychological point of view, myth constitutes the mother of literature. Thirdly, myth can not only inspire creative artists, but also provide various concepts and models for critics to interpret some special literary works. Fairy tales in Allen? Edgar Allan Poe's subjective feelings are injected into a new myth, and then a complete poem with an active soul is formed, which shows that Edgar Allan Poe wants to pursue a kind of "paradise beauty", a kind of sacred and classical beauty.