Introduction to Prudholm.
Sally. French poet Prudholm (1839- 1907), formerly known as René? Francois? Prudholm Born in an industrial and commercial family in Paris, his father is an engineer. Sally. Prudholm was smart and studious since he was a child, but he failed to enter the university for further study due to health reasons. In his early years, he worked as a clerk and engineer, engaged in legal work, and then turned to poetry creation. Solid scientific literacy makes him want to communicate poetry and science; His keen interest in philosophy made him want to capture inspiration from philosophical thinking and extract the theme of this poem. Around 1960s, he took part in the poetry movement of panas School and became one of the representatives of the school. Panas School is composed of some high school poets who flaunt "Art for Art's sake" and is the pioneer of symbolism. The throwing poet advocates being far away from reality, being calm and objective, and restraining the direct expression of personal feelings in art.
A brief introduction to Prudholm's life
1March, 83916th, Prudholm was born into a middle-class family. When his father died when he was two years old, the future poet, his widowed mother and a sister lived in Paris and Chatterne in the south of Paris. According to The Times Literary Supplement, when he was very young, his family gave his father a nickname? Sally. .
After graduating at the top of his class in mathematics, Prudholm planned to enter a polytechnic, but a conjunctivitis shattered all his hopes of becoming a mechanic. Two other events in his youth plunged him into lifelong sadness. First, he was lovelorn: a cousin he fell in love with when he was a teenager married another man; The other is to lose faith. He lives with Catholic relatives in Lyon. After a short period of stable faith, he became a skeptic, although he longed for faith.
After working as a clerk in the foundry of "Gone with the Wind" for a while, Prudholm turned to legal work on 1860 and got a position in a notary office in Paris. He got an inheritance and became financially independent, so he left the law and concentrated on writing. 1865 published the first collection of poems, Long and Short Poems.
From 65438 to 0870, Prudholm's life was once again overshadowed. On June+10, 5438, his uncle, aunt and mother died one after another, which made him suffer a heavy blow. Then the Franco-Prussian War broke out, and the hard military life completely ruined his health.
In his later years, Prudholm's poems brought him many honors: he was elected to the French Academy, nominated as a member of the Medal of Honor, and finally won the Nobel Prize. Unfortunately, his health is getting worse and worse, and wind paralysis and insomnia afflict him every day. He spent the last 15 years of his life in the castle, and died peacefully in the garden with his sister on September 7th 1907.
The Style of Prudholm's Works
Elon? Schaefer pointed out that the themes of Gao Dan's poems are very wide, ranging from trivial social problems to serious philosophical thinking. In Schaefer's view, the characteristic of this school of poetry lies not in the theme of its works, but in its emphasis on the use of rigorous skills and formal structure. Prudholm is the same as Germany? Like Riesler, he showed concern for philosophy from the beginning. However, unlike his mentor, he hoped to find some meaning in life all his life, thus abandoning pessimism. Another thing that distinguishes Prudholm from other high school poets is his preference for science. The Times Literary Supplement said: In the poet's heart, there is an engineer who died young. ? Metaphors in his poems reflect this interest. As Slosson said in The Independent, Prudholm is a? A poet who sings for balloons, barometers, submarine cables, photography, the origin of species and the determination of specific gravity? .
The Franco-Prussian War left a profound influence on young poets like Prudholm. Like other high school poets, he struggled with the fear of war terror and the love of his motherland. At the beginning of the war, Prudholm published Impression of War (1870) full of pacifist views. But after the humiliation of war, siege and final defeat and occupation, he wrote France (1870), a group of sonnets full of patriotic feelings.
Even before the war began, Prudholm sought to observe and analyze his society in order to find the meaning of life. In his lyric poems, just like in a broken vase, he discusses all kinds of tragedies in human heart. In other poems with less psychological elements and more philosophical and even metaphysical elements, he questioned whether God exists and whether God is just. Prudholm commented in his personal diary 1 864 65438+1October1that he couldn't understand how God allowed the massacre in San Diego church to happen, and noticed that this theme was very suitable for writing a poem. Eight years later, he published Fate (1872), a long philosophical poem exploring the tragic significance of Santiago. Prudholm wrote more and more such long poems, instead of short lyric poems that made him famous. His last collection of lyric poems is Tender Feelings in vain (1875), which once again discusses the hopeless pursuit of love.