Pushkin's "To the Sea" is a political lyric that resists tyranny, opposes dictatorship, pursues light, and praises freedom. The poet uses the sea as his bosom friend, freedom as his purpose, and confiding as his form to describe his pursuit of freedom from multiple angles and aspects. The emotions are dignified, deep and varied, and the style is vigorous, unrestrained and exciting. Generally speaking, the poetic changes in "To the Sea" show the "three steps" of love of the sea, thoughts of the sea, and thoughts of the sea. The following is a brief analysis of this:
Poetry of the Love of the Sea The first to seventh stanzas are the first level, mainly describing the poet's love for the sea, his pursuit of freedom, and the sadness and pain he feels due to his own lack of freedom. The poet takes the sea as his close friend and expresses his heart to the sea in a face-to-face and heart-to-heart manner. First of all, he bids farewell to the sea with deep affection and sings the sea passionately. The poet sings heartily about the spirit and strength of the sea, which actually expresses his admiration for freedom and admiration for greatness. Secondly, the poet also poured out his troubles and sadness to the sea with great emotion. Here is the unspeakable suffering of the author who wanted to get rid of the darkness and sought freedom but could not; there is the helpless determination of the soul struggling in vain; there is also the regret of following the sea and rushing to the distance but not being able to do so. In front of the sea, the poet sometimes wanders and is confused, sometimes sings reveliously, and sometimes calls out affectionately.
Stanzas 8 to 13 of the poem "Haizhisi" are the third level. The poet deeply remembers the hero Napoleon and the great poet Byron, and expresses his confusion about advocating freedom but having unfulfilled ambitions, admiring heroes but having a bleak future. This part integrates rational thinking into subjective emotions, embodying Pushkin's sharpness, rigor, rationality and wisdom as a lyric poet with great political thoughts. Regarding Napoleon, the poet affirmed his spirit of fighting for freedom and revolution in the first half, but more criticized his tyranny and aggression in the second half when he lost freedom. Napoleon was imprisoned on an isolated island in the ocean, and the freedom fighter Byron died in a foreign country. This sad and bleak ending made the poet feel disappointed. The aching poems reveal a melancholy of unfulfilled ambitions, a dim future, a hero with no way out, and a friend who is no longer close to him. What Pushkin expresses in these verses is a kind of condensed and complex thoughts and feelings, including passionate praise for the heroes of freedom, cold criticism of tyranny and tyranny, and melancholy elegy about the end of the road. The combination of emotions and images shows that The sharpness and wisdom of rational thinking.
The last two stanzas of Thoughts on the Sea (verses 14 to 15) are the third level, concluding the whole poem and echoing the opening chapter. They express the poet's farewell to the sea, miss the sea, remember the sea, and spread freedom. . The poet's meaning is overflowing with the sea and is inclusive of all things. He wants to embrace the sea and run towards freedom, taking away the beautiful blue light, taking away the cold and lonely rocks, taking away the tame and pleasant bay, taking away the bleak and dark shadows, taking away the fluff. The nagging waves carried away the earth-shattering roar. Let the voice of freedom spread to the ends of the earth, let the light of freedom illuminate the night sky, let the flowers of freedom bloom throughout the forest, let the trees of freedom green throughout the wilderness, and let the waves of freedom nourish all things. Freedom, in the poet's mind, is like a gushing sun, rising slowly and shining brightly.