[UK] Appreciation of the love poem "The Nightingale" by Milton

[UK] Appreciation of the love poem "The Nightingale" by Milton

[UK] Milton

Ah, dusk, all the woods are quiet,

Just as the nightingale sings on the flowering branches,

You must fill your lover’s heart with new hope

When The beautiful hour brings the auspicious May?

Can your wandering song close the eyes of the day,

Before the shallow cuckoo sings The sound of sound,

foretells the victory of love and the power of love,

Ah, if Joseph has given you soft songs,

then in Sing quickly in the nearby forest, don't wait

The wild bad bird tells me of a hopeless fate,

Because every year you always - but for no reason,

Singing a little too late didn’t make me feel comfortable.

Whether you are a muse or a partner of love, I serve you

Both of them, they are both my gods!

(Translated by Tang Shi )

The nightingale is a small bird with an exquisite body. It gets its name because of its clear and melodious song, which is often sung on moonlit nights. Nightingales often appear in the works of Western poets, mostly related to love. Milton mentions it more than once. In "Paradise Lost" the poet calls the nightingale a serious bird, and in "The Meditating Man" the poet praises the nightingale: "The wonderful bird avoids the noise of stupidity, is the most harmonious and sad!"

< p> This song "Nightingale" expresses the poet's desire for love. The first paragraph of the poem is about hearing a nightingale singing on a branch full of flowers at dusk in the auspicious month of May, which arouses the poet's hope of love. Milton wrote the famous short poem "May Morning Song" on May 1, 1629, which sang: "Welcome the gorgeous May, you inspire/Joy, youth and passionate hope;/The woods and groves are Your attire, / the mountains and valleys boast of your happiness / we also praise you with morning songs, / welcome you, and wish you endless eternity!” The poet expressed his love for May in clear verses. Praise. It is said that Milton's favorite thing is that the nightingale stays up all night and sings endless songs. Dusk is an imaginative time when tired birds long for their return and wanderers miss their loved ones. Therefore, the three images of May, dusk and nightingale are gathered together in one place, which makes the poet ask fervently: "Do you want to fill your lover's heart with new hope?"

There is an ancient European saying. A superstitious saying: If you hear the nightingale singing before you hear the cuckoo singing, your love will go smoothly. So there are the first three lines of the second paragraph of this poem. The next line from the fourth to sixth lines is the poet urging the nightingale: Since Jove (the main god Zeus in Greek mythology) has given you a soft song, sing it quickly and don't let the rough and bad birds (ie. cuckoo) to destroy my hopes. It reveals the poet's anxiety about getting happiness. Lines 7 and 8 explain the poet's urgent mood, because the nightingale always sings too late every year, which does not make the poet feel comfortable. How many dashes of hope are hidden in the words of blame! It is not difficult to understand the ups and downs of the poet's emotional life. The previous emotional melody advances from hope to urging to blame and complaint, and *** appears in the last two lines. The poet was eager for happiness and could not suppress it. He was worried that the nightingale would delay his happiness again, so he said in a threatening tone: "Whether you are a muse or a partner of love, I serve them both, they are all mine." God!" A heart of fervent yearning leaps onto the page.

The language in the poem is easy to understand, except that "hour", "muse" and "love" (referring to Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty in Greek mythology) are names of gods. See the truth in the ordinary.