Appreciation of Uhlander's love poem Drunk Girl

Appreciation of Uhlander's love poem Drunk Girl

Uhlander (German)

Three young men crossed the Rhine,

Walk into a proprietress's shop:

"The wife of shop-owner, you can have a good wine to entertain?

Why doesn't your beautiful daughter come out? "

"All my wines are cold and bright.

My little daughter is lying on the platform. "

The three of them went into the girl's boudoir,

I saw a girl lying in a black coffin.

The first young man lifted the veil,

Looking at the girl, sad:

"alas! If you're still alive,

Beauty, from now on, I will love you forever. "

The second one covered her with a veil,

I turned away and shouted:

"Well, you used the coffin platform as a bed today!

How many years have I loved you! "

The third one immediately pulled up his scarf again.

Kissed her pale lips:

"I have always loved you, and I haven't changed today.

I will love you forever. "

(translated by Bai Fei)

Uhlander (1787 ~ 1862) is a German poet. Politically, he belongs to the left wing of bourgeois liberalism, and in literature, he is the leader of "Schwaben Romanticism". His poetry creation is good at narrative ballads and romance, with beautiful rhyme and simple language, which is better than folk songs. Many composers set music to his poems. During the War of Liberation against Napoleon, he wrote some impassioned patriotic poems. Uhlander is one of the founders of Germanic literature.

From ancient times to the present, literature has two eternal themes, one is the theme of life and the other is the theme of love. Life is precious, but love is more expensive. This poem "Drunken Girl" connects love and death, and describes a beautiful girl lying in a black coffin with three kinds of love, three realms and three understandings of love with allegorical genre and romantic brushwork, thus highlighting the theme of this poem: love is eternal beyond the boundary between life and death.

This poem creates a specific environment for us with a strange artistic conception: on the Rhine, in a small hotel, three young people came here for the girl they all fell in love with. However, when they saw the wine coming, they "walked into the girl's boudoir" and what they saw was "the girl lying in the black coffin." The poet boldly concentrated death and love in this fictional situation, which laid a sad and bitter tone for the whole poem. Let us hear the following three tasteful confessions of life and death and feel their different inner activities. The first young man obviously won't love that girl. In his view, love is harvest. Then the girl is dead, the beauty is dead, and his love should be over. And the second young man once really loved this girl. He couldn't bear to see her body and wept bitterly, feeling sorry, sad and sad for the girl's short youth. While lamenting the girl, he also worships his love. The love of the third young man transcends the boundary between life and death. He regards love as a part of his life and will not regret it until he dies. If the girl knows about the underground, she will definitely come back to life and return to the world. It can be seen that it is the most prominent feature of this poem to truly reproduce the inner world of the characters with strange artistic ideas.

Secondly, the language is refined, simple, colloquial and personalized. The whole poem reads like telling a beautiful story, but also like an implicit and profound fable, which is intriguing. The actions, expressions and words of the three characters, though few words are used, are very expressive, highly generalized and typical, which plays a finishing role in expressing the thoughts and personalities of the characters.