Ah, you passed the road of love,
While waiting, I wanted to see clearly
Whose pain will be as severe as mine;
I beg you to just listen to what I have to say,
and then think about it again
Whether all the pain will be concentrated on me.
My happiness is not much, love does not help me,
But love has its sublime qualities,
It makes my life sweet and easy,
Because I often hear someone say something behind my back:
"God, what is so noble about you
that makes people's hearts so beautiful? Linglong? ”
All the heroic deeds from the treasury of love,
have completely disappeared from me,
I am so pitiful,
< p> So I couldn't say a word.I really want to imitate those people
In order to be shy, they hide their flaws
And I, on the surface, like Huan,
< p> But there is pain and crying in my heart.(Translated by Qian Hongjia)
Appreciation
In addition to the collection of love poems "Rebirth", Dante also wrote many songs praising Beatrice and expressing love. Poems about love for other women. Most of them were written in his youth, providing us with materials to understand young Dante's spiritual life, love concepts and poetic characteristics from different aspects. This poem is one of them.
The poem passionately affirms the power of worldly love. The medieval church denied love between men and women and regarded it as a symbol of evil. Dante sang praises for love in his poem. The poet believed that love is a legitimate and noble emotion of human beings. It can not only enrich people's lives and make people's lives "sweet and easy", but also cultivate people's life. Human sentiment "makes people's hearts so beautiful and delicate." The poet's view of love is obviously contrary to the religious asceticism of the Middle Ages.
Of course, in the history of medieval lyric poetry, bold and passionate praise of the love between men and women did not begin with Dante. As early as Provence lyric poetry, there are a large number of poems with love as the content. However, the "cavalier's love" sung by these poems is based on love and is not based on the mutual love between men and women. It is in this regard that this poem surpasses the Proven?al love poems. The poem talks about the pain of love, which is the pain of lovesickness caused by the other person not understanding one's true feelings. To a large extent, it shows that the love expressed in the poem has the characteristics of modern society, that is, it emphasizes the relationship between the lover and the lover. mutual love as the premise. This view of love is the forerunner of the "liberation of individuality" proposed by the bourgeoisie when the new capitalist production relations sprouted. At the same time, this poem is also different from those poems that express mystical and purely spiritual religious love. There is no abstract praise or elaboration of the lover's virtues and beauty that are common in the latter poems. There are only the frustrations of secular love. A true expression of the confusion, anguish, and helplessness.
The style of this poem is fresh and natural, lively and moving, and the emotional expression is straightforward and strong. There is no symbolism or fantasy element, and there are no traces of chiseling in the language and rhythm, which shows that the poet is beginning to break away from the "gentle new style" poetry. Pie style tendency.
(Peng Shaojian)