The Collection of Songs reflects the poet's inner contradiction: he loves life and nature, longs for human happiness and pursues love and honor, but he can't break with religious tradition and asceticism; Patriotic enthusiasm and national consciousness, but divorced from the people and despised the masses.
The poet pinned his ideal and spiritual quality on Laura, and praised her physical beauty again and again. Petrarch is also very sensitive to the beauty of nature, and some poems combine the praise of Laura with the description of nature.
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The most representative love poem in Petrarch's collection of songs.
Petrarch's love poems broke through the barriers of asceticism, swept away the art of war with hidden meanings and mysterious symbols in medieval poems, and directly described people in real life. He openly exposed his inner activities of longing for a happy life to people. In his works, Laura is no longer a pretentious and unattainable lady in the Middle Ages, but a simple, cheerful and amiable woman in the new era.
Because Petrarch realistically describes Laura's beauty from the perspective of human nature, his poems are fresh in style and have strong artistic appeal.
Here is a well-known story. When his love poems spread, they aroused the discussion of readers. Many people even have a crush on Laura. They took the trouble to come to avignon from faraway places to enjoy the incomparable beauty. But at this time, Laura is a middle-aged woman, and she has already lost her former style, which makes these people from afar impulsive and disappointed.
Petrarch's lyric poetry is created on the basis of inheriting the tradition of Provence knight poetry and Italian "gentle new style" poetry school love poetry, and has formed its own style. Its characteristics are light style, meaningful charm, and good at borrowing scenery to express emotion, which has reached a situation of blending scenes.
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