He was born in a poor family and worked as a soldier and a wandering artist. /kloc-started writing poetry at the age of 0/5, and/kloc-published his first work "Drunken" at the age of 0/9. From 65438 to 0844, he went to Budapest and published two poems, including two famous long poems, Hammer in the Country and Brave John. Later, he traveled around and wrote poems such as "Hungary Against the King and Guizhou". The general tone is to oppose feudal autocracy and pursue freedom and equality, and poetry has a strong folk flavor.
1846 great changes have taken place in petofi's thought and creation since he joined the revolution.
He advocated using poetry as a weapon to serve the revolutionary struggle, created many political lyrics, and called on the people to fight for freedom and liberation. The famous article is "I am eager to bleed, a man should be like a man, to the nobility, to the19th century poet, and a man should have the courage of a man and serve the people. It has created a group of heroes, vividly demonstrated the Hungarian people's struggle spirit for freedom, and is full of romantic passion and patriotic enthusiasm, which is inspiring. 1in July, 849, he died unfortunately in the war against the Russian-Austrian Coalition forces. ?
Petofi died at the age of 26, leaving behind a 22-year-old wife and a 1.5-year-old son. He wrote more than 800 lyric poems and 8 narrative poems in his life, in addition to more than 800,000 words of novels, political essays, plays and travel notes, quite a few of which were completed in the war. Such a high output is very rare in the history of European literature.
Petofi occupies a unique position in the literary history of Hungary and even the whole nation. He laid the foundation stone of Hungarian national literature, inherited and developed the fighting tradition of enlightenment literature, and was praised as "a thorny rose growing on the fertile black land soaked with slave blood". For more than a century, petofi, as the banner of national liberation and literary revolution, has also been recognized by progressives all over the world. His famous poems are still widely read today.
His "Song of the Nation" once became an informal "national anthem", which shows the great influence of his poetry!