Holderlin was a German poet in the189th century. He was poor and ill before his death, and his works did not receive due attention. However, one hundred years after his death, his works swept the world. Holderlin has been known by more and more people and won high praise, which makes people sigh. The highest achievement of Holderlin's works is poetry. Holderlin is known as the pioneer of classical romanticism. Here is a brief introduction to Holdrin's poetic style.
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A large part of Holderlin's poems are used to express his yearning and pursuit of an ideal, such as freedom, friendship and fraternity. These works are called "ode to human ideal", and the language is fresh and natural, pure and concise; The figurative images in the poem are implicit and intriguing. Holderlin's praise for the future society, dissatisfaction with the real society and uncompromising philosophical thoughts are the important characteristics of his later poems. Holderlin's works succinctly express his country's ideal of getting rid of absolutism. He advocates actively educating the new generation so that their personalities can develop harmoniously and comprehensively. His poems are full of utopian classical connotation and romanticism, so he is called the pioneer of classical romanticism. At the same time, Holderlin pays attention to the expression of personal feelings, showing melancholy and loneliness, and showing the irreconcilable ideal and reality. It can be said that Holderlin successfully built a bridge between classicism and romanticism with his works.
On the whole, Holderlin's poetic style belongs to the school of classical romanticism, and Holderlin is praised as "the pioneer of classical romanticism" by later generations because of his poetic style.
A Brief Introduction of Poet Holderlin
Holderlin, a German poet, is a pioneer of classical romantic poetry. He was once forgotten for a century. Holderlin, a poet born at the end of 16, was not remembered until the 20th century, and finally won due praise all over the world. So what will this forgotten poet look like before his death?
Portrait of Holderlin
The poet is studying in a theological seminary. When he was studying, the French Revolution aroused the enthusiasm of him and his classmates. They set up a poetry club and began to write poems praising human rights. After graduating from the theological seminary, Holderlin did not serve as a priest because Christianity was incompatible with the Greek mythology he believed in. For him, the poet is the intermediary between man and God. Later, as a governess, Holderlin fell in love with the hostess of her employer's house. In three years of love, Holderlin wrote a novel and many lyric poems for his mistress. Such a love affair naturally didn't last long, and the frustration of love made the poet Holderlin exhausted. At this time, he has some mental problems. In the years of insanity, he still stubbornly persisted in writing and even translated two Greek tragedies. By the time he was thirty-seven, he had completely lost his mind, could not take care of himself, and could not continue writing.
Judging from his life experience, Holderlin can't be said to be a tragedy, and his poems were rarely appreciated at that time. Schiller even thinks that Holderlin's poems are too introverted and subjective. Until19th century, literary critics still focused on Schiller's views on Holdrin's poems. But in fact, his poems yearn for the ideal world and praise human ideals, such as friendship, love and freedom.
A Brief Introduction of German Poet Holderlin
Holderlin is a famous German poet and a pioneer of classical romantic poetry. His works did not receive any attention before his death, and his works were not known to the world until nearly a century after his death. Holderlin is an unfortunate man. He was almost devastated by his feelings because he fell in love with the wife of his tutor. Later, he returned to his hometown, and soon he could not take care of himself because of insanity. Let's briefly introduce Holderlin.
Portrait of Holderlin
Holderlin was born on March 20th, 770 at/kloc-0 on the Neckar River in Lao Fen. His father is the dean of the local monastery. When Hodelin was three years old, his father died and his mother was the daughter of a priest. She remarried on 1774. Holderlin studied in a monastery, and 1788 entered the seminary of Tubingen University, where he read many books. His favorite writer is Rousseau. From 65438 to 0789, the French Revolution broke out, and he and his classmates wrote a lot of revolutionary poems. In 793, Holderlin graduated from a seminary, but because of his belief in the ancient Greek gods, he failed to become a priest. At this time, Holderlin wrote many poems and published them in Schiller's publications.
Holderlin went to Jena in 794 and returned to Nitingen the following year. In 796, Holderlin became a teacher of Frankfurt banker Guntad and fell in love with his employer's wife. During this period, he finished the novel "Xu Perion, or Greek Hermit". In 798, after quarreling with Gong, he left Frankfurt and wrote the tragedy Death of empedocles. 180 1 year, Holderlin became a governess again, during which he wrote some elegies and hymns. When he 1802 returned to Stuttgart, he was already crazy. His translation was published in 1804. This year, his friend Sinclair took him to work in Humboldt's library. In 806, he was admitted to Tubingen Mental Hospital for treatment. Later, he lived in Zimmer's house and worked as a carpenter. Held in1826; Lin's poem was published. 1On June 7th, 843, Holderlin passed away.
From the brief introduction of Holderlin, we can see that Holderlin is an outstanding poet and an unfortunate man. As early as the peak of his writing, he was insane, which reminded people of a saying: "Half of genius is crazy." .