Attack the snowy weather,
Escape from the long night!
St. Valentine River, birds in song for you,
You sit high in the clouds wearing a corolla;
Come on, summer, with your soft sunshine.
Attack the snowy weather
Those birds have reason to sing from time to time,
Because they look for mates in the bushes.
Ah, how happy and sweet they sang when they woke up:
Come on, summer, soft sunshine.
Attack the snowy weather,
Escape from the long night!
(translated by Huang Gao)
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Geoffrey chaucer has a unique position in the history of English literature, just as Dante did in the history of Italian literature. He is not only the last representative of English medieval literature, but also the forerunner of humanistic literature in the new period.
Chaucer's Rondo of Hundred Birds is an excerpt from the Hundred Birds Congress, which was probably written in 1380 or 138 1. Parliament of Hundred Birds is the product of Chaucer's different influences on French court love literature tradition, Latin-Italian poetry and English native literature, and also the result of his bold experiments in English poetry in those years. Inspired by Italian, French and Latin poetic techniques, Chaucer changed the basic form of English poetry from alliteration to pentameter according to the characteristics of English language.
In addition, its Rondo style is also very distinctive. Rondo style originated from European folk waltzes and was widely used in French classical piano music at the beginning of18th century. It is based on the repetitive basic theme and the principle that several different "interludes" appear alternately, and the overall feeling is more cheerful and active. In this poem, the first paragraph is the basic theme of the whole poem As a repeated note, it is really amazing that it echoes and recites repeatedly in the poem, but it is ingenious and not monotonous.
When I first read Rondo of Birds, I strongly felt a fresh and hearty breath. I can smell the sweetness in the determination to fight, and I can see the sunshine on a cold night. Instead of losing bright colors and sounds because it may be a song in Long Night, it makes people feel like they are in a foreign country in early summer. The changeable weather breeds rich emotions-before the arrival of that warm and lush season, the desire for freedom and love has quietly spread. ...
Birds are singing on the swaying river bank in the shade. For their partners, there is love like water: calling for the soft sunshine in summer, calling for the warmth without snow and snow, and calling for the shorter and shorter night!
The "St. Valentine River" symbolizing love is now "sitting in the high clouds with a corolla", and the birds sing their hearts: "Come on, summer, attack the snowy weather with your soft sunshine."
Love needs sunshine, and love is sunshine. The happy and sweet song of the bird "finding a mate in the bush" is proof. If the first two calls are still passive with fear, then the birds' calls have shown positive, fearless, cheerful and optimistic: no matter how crazy the snow is, it can't put out the lingering fire, and no matter how long the night is, it can't cover your eyes, because summer is coming and the sun shines into love, so soft and warm; Because love is like sunshine, so warm and lush, just like summer.
In the era of Chaucer's Long Night, he boldly eulogized secular love, fearlessly strived for secular happiness, and affirmed the individual's right to pursue freedom of love, which was a powerful counterattack against feudal ethics and church asceticism and a natural expression of humanistic thought. Through these eyes that pursue light in the dark, we seem to see that the haze that suppresses human nature is gradually dissipating and the heat of love is slowly coming. ...
(Song Shanshan)