Life is precious and love is more valuable. If you want freedom, you can throw away both. Author: Petofi, the great Hungarian poet.
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This familiar and famous poem "Freedom and Love" was written by the great Hungarian poet Petofi.
Original poem
"Life is precious, and love is more valuable. If it is for freedom, both can be thrown away."
--Petofi "Freedom and Love"
"Life is precious, but love is more valuable. If it is for freedom, both can be thrown away." In China, many people will recite this poem by the great Hungarian poet Petofi "Love, Freedom".
The author pursues
He is a person who has the courage to pursue love. In September 1846, Petofi met a beautiful girl - Sendele Yulia at a dance. The two fell in love at first sight, but their relationship was strongly opposed by the girl's parents.
In the face of resistance, Petofi's love for Yulia became even more passionate, which also inspired the poet to create. Within half a year, he created "To Yulia", "To Yulia" and "Yuliya". I am a person with love" and other love poems. These love poems deeply moved Yulia. She finally broke through the shackles of her father and family and married Petofi a year later.
Then, Petofi resolutely chose "freedom" between personal love and the freedom of the motherland.
In 1849, he participated in a bloody battle with the Russian-Austrian Allied Forces. Petofi died heroically at the age of 26, leaving behind a 22-year-old wife and a 1-and-a-half-year-old son. The poet, as he wrote in his poem, heroically sacrificed his life on the battlefield for "freedom".
Creative background
This famous love poem was written on January 1, 1847. At that time, Petofi organized his completed works for publication and wrote a preface to explain his own ideas on poetry creation. It was late that night that he wrote this poem, thereby completing an important leap in the development of his early thoughts.
Appreciation
In the poem, the poet first praised the preciousness of life, maybe because it has infinite creativity, maybe because it belongs to people only once. However, in the poet's opinion, love is more valuable than life. "Life is precious, but love is more valuable." This is the poet's highly condensed life experience after experiencing the life experience of love. It is a natural attribute of human beings for opposite sexes to love each other. Without the water of love, the tree of life will wither; with love, life will be full of vitality and its essential power can be fully demonstrated. As early as 1844, when the poet was 21 years old, he experienced a love blow. At that time, he and Qiao Bao Edkar, a beautiful 15-year-old girl, fell in love at first sight and loved each other. The poet wrote two poems dedicated to her at that time. On January 7, 1845, Edelka died suddenly, which dealt a heavy blow to the poet. He cried bitterly in front of his lover's coffin, he slept in the bed where his lover had slept before his death, and he mourned in front of his lover's grave. All these painful sufferings were later turned into mourning poems, published under the name "The Collection of Cypress Leaves on Edelka's Grave". This was a huge blow that the poet received in his emotional life, which made him deeply feel the value of love. In 1846, the poet met Yulia, a rich girl, and the two finally got married after overcoming many obstacles. It is self-evident that this period was full of doubts, depression, sadness and joy. If Petofi's early love life did not break out of his narrow personal circle, then later on, he was able to link his personal love life with the national liberation movement. Undoubtedly, he was greatly inspired by his lover. A diary entry written on March 17, 1848 contains this statement: “During the greater part of the night my wife, my beloved and courageous encourager, was awake; Follow me. She walks in front of my thoughts and plans, just like a military flag fluttering in the wind in front of the team. "In those days and nights when the revolution broke out, it was obvious that the poet had such a companion and comrade fighting alongside him. Be proud of this. Therefore, the poet said: "Love is like breathing and pulse to me" and cannot be left for a moment. From these words, we can see Petofi’s love values.
Love is so noble, so what is it compared with freedom? In the era when the poet lived, freedom meant the independence of the nation and the liberation of the people. Life without freedom is "living on", love without freedom is "trap". It is based on this understanding that Petofi not only fought with his pen and wrote countless revolutionary poems praising freedom and inspiring the people's fighting spirit; he also fought with his sword and participated in many "bloody rivers" of fierce battles, and finally died heroically " Died on the point of a Cossack's spear." Petofi said: "If anyone wants to fall in a pool of blood, then he does not need to do anything else, just say the word 'freedom', and that is enough." Isn't the poet's cry for freedom here the right to freedom? Revolution, the cry for the people's liberation? Petofi correctly handled the relationship between life, love, and freedom. He not only affirmed the value of life and love, but also consciously transcended them and sublimated them to the point where he was willing to stand up for the people's liberation. The noble realm of sacrifice draws a line with the general love poems that talk about the love between men and women.
About the author
Petofi Sandor (1823-1849) was a great Hungarian revolutionary poet and the founder of Hungarian national literature. He was born into a poor butcher family and lived a difficult life since childhood.
He was an actor and a soldier, and was the leader and singer of the Hungarian bourgeois revolution in 1848. His life was linked to the Hungarian people's struggle against foreign aggression and for political freedom. . He began writing poetry at the age of fifteen. In his short and glorious life, *** wrote more than 800 lyric poems and nine long narrative poems.