This famous love poem was written in 1847 65438+ 10/. At that time, petofi sorted out his finished works, prepared them for publication, and wrote a preface to explain his thoughts on poetry creation. It was in the middle of the night that he wrote this poem, thus completing an important leap in the development of his early thoughts.
In the poem, the poet first praised the value of life, perhaps because it has unlimited creativity, perhaps because it only belongs to people once. However, in the poet's view, love is more valuable than life. "Life is precious, and love is more expensive." This is the poet's high cohesion of this life experience after experiencing it. The opposite sex loves each other, which is the natural attribute of human beings. Without the water of love, the tree of life will wither; With love, life is full of vitality, and the essential strength of life can be fully demonstrated. As early as 1844, when the poet was 2 1 year old, he experienced a love blow. At that time, he and Qiao Bao Edcar, a beautiful girl aged 15, fell in love at first sight. At that time, the poet wrote two poems for her.
1845 65438+1On October 7th, Adeka died suddenly, which dealt a heavy blow to the poet. He wept in front of his lover's coffin, slept in the bed where his lover slept before his death, and mourned in front of his lover's grave. All these painful experiences were later written as mourning poems and published in the name of "The Collection of Leaves in front of Adeka's Tomb". This is a great blow to the poet's emotional life and makes him deeply feel the value of love. 1846, the poet met You Liya, a rich lady, and they broke through many obstacles and finally became lovers. The doubts, anguish, sadness and comfort during this period are self-evident. If petofi's early love life has not jumped out of his narrow circle, then later, he was able to connect his personal love life with the national liberation movement, which was undoubtedly greatly encouraged by his lover.
In a diary written in March of 1848 and 17, there is such a description: "In the middle of the night, my wife and I, my beloved and brave inspiration, didn't fall asleep; She always inspires me. She walked in front of my thoughts and plans, just like a military flag flying in front of the team. " In those days and nights when the revolution broke out, the poet was obviously proud of having such a partner and comrade-in-arms to fight alongside him. So the poet said, "Love is like breathing and pulse to me", and I can't live without it for a moment. From these words, we can see petofi's love values.
Love is so noble, what is that compared with freedom? In the era when poets lived, freedom meant national independence and people's liberation. Life without freedom is "alive", and love without freedom is "trap". It is based on this understanding that petofi not only fought with a pen, but also wrote countless revolutionary poems that praised freedom and inspired people's fighting spirit. Moreover, he fought with his sword, participated in many fierce battles of "rivers of blood" and finally "died heroically on the tip of Cossack's gun". Petofi said: "If anyone wants to fall in a pool of blood, then he doesn't have to do anything else, just say the word' freedom', which is enough." Isn't the poet's cry for freedom here a cry for revolution and people's liberation? Petofi correctly handled the relationship between life, love and freedom, not only affirmed the value of life and love, but also consciously surpassed it, sublimated to the lofty realm of being willing to sacrifice for people's liberation, and drew a clear line with the general love poems about the relationship between men and women.