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Pushkin's To the Sea is a political lyric poem against tyranny, dictatorship, light and freedom. The poet took the sea as his confidant and freedom as his aim, and poured out his heart from many angles and sides, describing his mental journey of pursuing freedom. The feelings are dignified, deep and changeable, and the style is bold and exciting. Generally speaking, the poetic changes in To the Sea are manifested in the love of the sea, the yearning for the sea and the trilogy of missing the sea, which is analyzed below. The first to seventh sections of Love in the Sea are the first layer, which mainly describes the poet's love for the sea, his pursuit of freedom and his sadness and pain because of his freedom. The poet took the sea as his intimate friend and poured out his heart to the sea in a face-to-face and heart-to-heart manner. First of all, they bid farewell to the sea wholeheartedly and eulogize the sea with passion. The sea is free and unrestrained, majestic and boundless, with an earth-shattering and wild spirit. It is presented in the author's mind, with radiant and beautiful vitality, blue rolling luster, deep abyss sound and surging momentum. More capricious passion changes, sometimes gentle and demure, such as the wind blowing the sails, pushing the boat with the current; Sometimes stormy waves, like lightning, cut through the air and shake the earth; Sometimes affectionate, bid farewell to friends and call for waiting; Sometimes I am depressed and resentful, sharing my worries with my friends, like crying. In short, the sea is a symbol of freedom and strength, with a broad mind, great tolerance and extraordinary strength. Have the power to sweep everything, have the courage to be wild and unruly, and have the courage to break the net. In fact, the poet indulges in singing the spiritual bearing and character strength of the sea in order to express his admiration for freedom and great power. Secondly, the poet also poured out his distress and sadness to the sea. Here is the unspeakable pain that the author wants to get rid of darkness and move towards freedom; Have a mental struggle, helpless in vain; It is a pity to follow the sea to the distance without success. Facing the sea, the poet sometimes hesitates, sometimes sings heartily, and sometimes calls affectionately: joys and sorrows, throw them into the sea without reservation. Listen to this poem: "I want to leave your lonely and still coast forever." /Congratulate you heartily,/Let my poems drift away with your waves,/But I failed to do so! "The sea is surging, rolling forward and heading for the distance. This image clearly conveys the author's belief in resisting tyranny, pursuing light and spreading freedom: let the waves of freedom towards the distant, let the songs of freedom sing the world, and let the hearts of freedom boil and stir. The poet's heart beats with the sea, and the sense of freedom conveyed by poetry stirs people who struggle for freedom from generation to generation. The second floor of Poem 8- 13 of Thinking of the Sea. The poet deeply cherishes the memory of the hero Napoleon and the great poet Byron, and expresses his confusion that he advocates freedom but has no ambition and worships heroes but has no future. This part integrates rational thinking into subjective feelings, which reflects Pushkin's keenness, preciseness, rationality and wisdom as a lyric poet with great political thoughts. For Napoleon, the first half of the poet affirmed his spirit of fighting for the free revolution, and the second half was more critical of his autocracy and aggression. " Cold Sleep, Magnificent Memories, Napoleon Died There and He was Tragically Buried all reveal a kind of ruthless anatomy and criticism, giving people the impression that Napoleon was ambitious, power-hungry, aggressive and cruel. The failure of Waterloo led to his exile in St. Helena, and eventually he died of illness. Looks like he deserved it. Who is it? As for Byron, the poet tried his best to eulogize him as a genius, another king in our thoughts, a singer who cried for the God of Freedom, and created a hero who grew up with the spirit of the sea, "Nothing can make him yield". He was brilliant and ambitious, and pursued freedom all his life. He said: "live for freedom, or you will die in the struggle." "1824, he traveled across the ocean to Greece, devoting all his support to the national liberation struggle of the Greek people. He was very brave and tenacious in the struggle against the Turkish occupation army and won a medal. He died in Greece in April of the same year. He has been shouting for freedom and fighting for justice all his life, but his tragic ending has made the poet extremely sad and angry, and issued a call to make the sea "noisy" and "stirring". The poet, with his broad mind, amazing strength and unrestrained momentum, encouraged the sea to sing for the dead. Denying Napoleon and praising Byron strongly affirmed Napoleon's thought of fighting for freedom, which triggered the poet's pessimistic association with his own destiny. " The world is empty ... sea, where are you taking me now? /people's fate is the same everywhere. "Napoleon imprisoned Wang Yang Island, and Byron, a freedom fighter, died in another country. This sad ending disappointed the poet. In the poem with dull pain, there is a kind of sadness that the ambition is not paid, the future is bleak, the hero has no way, and the confidant is no longer there. In these poems, Pushkin expressed a dignified and complicated thought and feeling, which included enthusiastic praise for freedom heroes, cynicism for tyranny and despotism, and melancholy lament for the end of the road. The combination of feeling and image shows the keenness and wisdom of rational thinking. The last two sentences (14 to 15) of "The Heart of the Sea" are the third layer, which closes the whole poem, takes care of the opening, and expresses the poet's voice of bidding farewell to the sea, remembering the sea and spreading freedom. " Oh, goodbye, sea! /I will never forget your solemn face,/I will listen to your thunder at dusk for a long time. "Affectionate farewell, the promise that will always be remembered in my heart, and long-term listening show that the poet's bosom friend is dedicated to the sea, especially the" Thunder of Evening "of the sea, like a beam of light in the night, illuminates the poet's free sky; Like the long wind in the valley, it washes away the poet's longing heart; Like thunder before a rainstorm, it reverberated in the poet's heart for a long time. The sea is rumbling, freedom is ringing, and the train of the poet's mind is running on the boundless Yuan Ye of thought. " My heart is full of you,/I want to take your steep rocks,/your bay,/your flash, your shadow and whispering waves,/into the forest and the silent desert. "Hugo said that the earth is wide, wider than the earth is the sea, wider than the sea is the sky, and wider than the sky is the human mind. The poet's intention overflowed into the sea and embraced everything. He wants to embrace the sea, run to freedom, take away the beautiful blue flash, the cold and lonely cliff, the gentle and lovely bay, the bleak and dark shadow, the boundless waves and the earth-shattering rumble. Let the voice of freedom spread all over the ends of the earth, let the light of freedom light up the night sky, let the flowers of freedom bloom in the forest, let the trees of freedom be green all over the wasteland, and let the waves of freedom moisten everything. Freedom is like the rising sun in the poet's mind. Ran Ran rises and shines. [3]