The teachings Goethe received from Herder were profound. It was this Herder who revealed to him a new world in the field of poetry - folk songs. Herder had extensively collected and explored the treasure trove of folk literature, and published the book "Voices of the People of All Nationalities" in 1778 and 1779. Influenced and encouraged by Herder, Goethe also began collecting folk songs in the area around Strasbourg. The contact with folk songs caused fundamental changes in Goethe's poetry creation during this period. In particular, the creation of lyric poems during this period laid a solid foundation for him to become a great German poet in the future. The most prominent among them are Tour of Seisenheim and "Song of Seisenheim".
In the poem, he broke with convention and expressed his feelings directly to the readers; he used a ladder structure: after praising spring and the vibrant and flowery nature, the poet prayed for love, which as The supreme law proves that nature is “continuously improving”. He issued a call for the supremacy of love against the anachronistic norms of the love life and marriage life of German citizens that were determined by economic foundations, declaring that lovers are morally equal, and at the same time pointed out the social significance of this love relationship. . The structure of the hymn and the form of the folk song were combined into a new lyric style, which had never happened before in German poetry.