Appreciation of Goethe's Love Poem Charlotte and Witt

Appreciation of Goethe's Love Poem Charlotte and Witt

Goethe (Germany)

Who doesn't like young people?

Who is the young woman who is not good at love?

This is the purest and purest of our human nature;

Ah, how can there be a painful escape?

Lovely reader, you cry him, you love him,

Please save his reputation before it is destroyed;

You see, his soul came out of the hole and whispered to you:

Please be a man and don't follow in my footsteps.

(translated by Guo Moruo)

This is a widely circulated love poem, the first poem in Goethe's famous novel young werther, which was completed on 1774.

The Trouble of Young Werther tells the love tragedy between a girl named Green and young Werther in the form of letters. Victor fell in love with the girl engaged to young Albert. He knew it was hopeless love, so he once forced himself to leave her and devote himself to busy work in order to get rid of it, but he failed, which made him extremely painful and embarked on the road of suicide. This novel combines some experiences of the author himself and one of his friends, which has distinct significance of the times and profound social content at that time, and reflects the troubles, depression and personal pursuit of an era. Engels once said that Witt written by Goethe was "an achievement in establishing one of the greatest criticisms". Witt's tragedy is anti-feudal and progressive, exposing and attacking false reality. However, Witt's resistance is passive resistance, which shows the weakness of the German bourgeoisie in the anti-feudal struggle.

Young Werther's troubles speak the voice of the times. After the publication of the novel, it aroused strong repercussions in Germany and Europe, forming "Witt fever", so that many lovelorn young people committed suicide by imitating Witt.

1775 When young werther was reprinted, Goethe attached this poem to the text of the novel to show the author's attitude towards Werther.

This poem has only two verses. The first section aims to explain that the mutual admiration of young men and women is human nature and the purest and purest expression of human nature, and tragedies should not happen. The poet begins with two rhetorical questions, which shows the fact that no young man or woman can avoid love. These two poems have strong generalization power and become famous sentences circulating among the vast number of young people. Then the poet put forward his own thoughts on the tragic ending of love in the form of questions, which also aroused the readers' deep thinking.

In the second verse of the poem, the poet asks readers to sympathize with Victor's misfortune and say "You cry for him" and "You love him". And hope to save his reputation before it is destroyed. This is the poet's request to readers not to misunderstand the work and misinterpret the author's writing purpose. The poet's love tragedy is based on some of his personal experiences and feelings and has a realistic basis. This is not just Victor's misfortune, but a common disease of the times. Therefore, the poet hopes that readers will give a correct evaluation of Witt. Therefore, the poet came from the white through Victor's soul: "Please be a man and don't follow in my footsteps." The poet didn't appreciate Witt's suicide. The poet believes that promising young people should rise from the trauma of love and seek success in their careers, instead of becoming victims of love. Goethe talked about love many times in his life, and he also encountered setbacks, lost, depressed and depressed in his love life, but the poet never recovered. So the poet will always be a handsome man with a figure of seven feet.

The publication of this poem is targeted. At that time, many young people followed Witt's example after being frustrated in love. Ending his own life by suicide deeply disturbed the poet's heart, so the poet wrote this poem to persuade those "loyal" readers to understand Witt's era. This poem has played a positive role objectively.