Poems of classics of domestic and foreign poetry of the 19th-20th centuries. Foreign poetry of the 19th - 20th centuries Foreign poets about love
The structured folk poetic experience, set down on paper, provided the basis for the transition from the general to the particular, from feudal and religious ideology to the inner world of man. Thus began the era of the Renaissance or Rebirth, in which the lyrical hero opposed slavery, was endowed with a strong will, deep feeling and entered into a tragic confrontation with reality. The Renaissance shaped "humanism."
At the end of the 16th century, the Renaissance transformed into Baroque - a movement filled with passion and abstraction from the real world in its desire for pomp, exaggeration, and complex metaphors. A person in poetry now does not have a clear idea of the environment, but strives to summarize the existing knowledge about it. Baroque opposed classicism. In the 17th century, the desire for freedom, greatness of mind and improvement of the world triumphed in poetry. But by the end of the century there was a turning point in this direction towards sentimentalism and pre-romanticism.
Further, movement along the time line is characterized by the rapidity of changing milestones, which directly depends on the development of scientific progress and society. Romanticism is quite soon suppressed by decadence - the fashion for demonism and gothicism, then gives way to modernism, which focuses attention on epistemological issues. In the mid-20th century, the milestone that gave birth to the “Stream of Consciousness” passes the baton to postmodernism, its search for truth in ontological questions.
Foreign poets of the 19th century
Romantic poets in connection with realism include:
J. Byron (1788-1824, England) conquered Europe with his gloomy selfishness, his hero reflects the mood of a post-revolutionary society, satiated with fun and pleasure, which is losing faith in perfection.
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Among the early novelists of England, it is worth noting John Keats ( 1795-1821 ) at the age of twenty-three gives the world works filled with meditative attention to the inner world of man and his connection with the sublime, eternal beauty of nature. He became the founder of the maximalist theory of art for art's sake.
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A follower of Byronism was the Spanish writer José de Espronceda ( 1808-1842 ), his poems are among the golden fund of world literature. Exploring the world of outcasts and Protestants, Espronceda worked on the rhythms of poetry and introduced previously little-used poetic meters into use.
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In Germany, the “last” romantic poet, master of feuilleton and travel writing, was Christian Johann Heinrich Heine ( 1797-1856 ). His direct merit is that the German spoken language has acquired an elegant ease. “Gainism” as a phenomenon began with the “Book of Songs” of 1827. Folk tales and legends certainly influence Heine’s work.
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V. Hugo (1802-1885, France) - poet-novelist, herald of freedom of speech. His plays boldly denounce the usurping power. The story of the unprecedented disruption of Hugo’s productions entered the literature under the name “The Battle of Hernani.” After all, Hugo dared to describe the confrontation of a powerless plebeian with a titled despot, which was not to the taste of the ruling “elite”. And for another fifty years, France, and the whole world, will be forced to “forget” about the existence of beautiful examples of romanticism.
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Foreign poets of the 20th century
The twentieth century is considered the century of modernists and postmodernists,
Modernists
G. Apollinaire (1880 - 1918 ) - French poet of Polish origin, author of the term and founder of "surrealism", master of Aristophanes' farces, who anticipated his time by several decades by coming up with the manifesto "New Spirit". He was an innovator, testing the author's punctuation, its complete absence, baroque imagery and changes in tone, exploring the techniques of emblematic writing in combination with the melancholic nature of the narrative.
Collections of poems:
K. Cavafy (1863 - 1933 ) - Alexandrian poet who wrote 154 published poems in Modern Greek. His work, expressed in a lapidary-simple, sometimes archaic language, with a distinct extra-subjective nature of presentation, had a significant influence on other poets and directors, and became the reason for the creation of the “ten inventions.”
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T. Eliot (1888 - 1965 ) - American-English poet and literary critic, wholly belonged to the avant-garde movement, in which, with the energy of a rebel, he depicted the decline of spirit, the devastation of man in the pursuit of material values. Since 1993, in Great Britain, Ireland (now America), the authors of the best collection of poems published for the first time have been awarded a prize named after him.
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Postmodernists
B. Brecht (1898 - 1956, Berlin), a German poet and playwright, preferred “ragged” rhythm, as one of the types of protest, to the accepted “smooth” versification. Brecht's main goal was to show the changeability of the world, despite the opacity of the state system, in which a person can only guess about the true causes of events.
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W. Auden (1907 - 1973 ) is an Anglo-American poet who has mastered a variety of writing methods. He owns about 400 poems and four long poems. Auden's mastery sparked various cultural reactions, such as the Beat movement.
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The poets of Japan, who felt the spirit of freedom later than other countries, fit into history as a separate line.
(1872 - 1943 ) - realist poet, thanks to whom a reform of versification took place, finally breaking the connection with feudalism.
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Japanese poetry is very different from any other, giving birth to new forms, new ways of expression, intertwining with the traditions of Japanese culture. At a time when European poetry no longer offers a way out, a ready-made solution, but a way to survive is to play for the sake of playing in a world of a present increasingly hidden by external forces.
Great ones about poetry:
Poetry is like painting: some works will captivate you more if you look at them closely, and others if you move further away.
Small cutesy poems irritate the nerves more than the creaking of unoiled wheels.
The most valuable thing in life and in poetry is what has gone wrong.
Marina Tsvetaeva
Of all the arts, poetry is the most susceptible to the temptation to replace its own peculiar beauty with stolen splendors.
Humboldt V.
Poems are successful if they are created with spiritual clarity.
The writing of poetry is closer to worship than is usually believed.
If only you knew from what rubbish poems grow without shame... Like a dandelion on a fence, like burdocks and quinoa.
A. A. Akhmatova
Poetry is not only in verses: it is poured out everywhere, it is all around us. Look at these trees, at this sky - beauty and life emanate from everywhere, and where there is beauty and life, there is poetry.
I. S. Turgenev
For many people, writing poetry is a growing pain of the mind.
G. Lichtenberg
A beautiful verse is like a bow drawn through the sonorous fibers of our being. The poet makes our thoughts sing within us, not our own. By telling us about the woman he loves, he delightfully awakens in our souls our love and our sorrow. He's a magician. By understanding him, we become poets like him.
Where graceful poetry flows, there is no room for vanity.
Murasaki Shikibu
I turn to Russian versification. I think that over time we will turn to blank verse. There are too few rhymes in the Russian language. One calls the other. The flame inevitably drags the stone behind it. It is through feeling that art certainly emerges. Who is not tired of love and blood, difficult and wonderful, faithful and hypocritical, and so on.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
-...Are your poems good, tell me yourself?
- Monstrous! – Ivan suddenly said boldly and frankly.
- Do not write anymore! – the newcomer asked pleadingly.
- I promise and swear! - Ivan said solemnly...
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. "Master and Margarita"
We all write poetry; poets differ from others only in that they write in their words.
John Fowles. "The French Lieutenant's Mistress"
Every poem is a veil stretched over the edges of a few words. These words shine like stars, and because of them the poem exists.
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
Ancient poets, unlike modern ones, rarely wrote more than a dozen poems during their long lives. This is understandable: they were all excellent magicians and did not like to waste themselves on trifles. Therefore, behind every poetic work of those times there is certainly hidden an entire Universe, filled with miracles - often dangerous for those who carelessly awaken the dozing lines.
Max Fry. "Chatty Dead"
I gave one of my clumsy hippopotamuses this heavenly tail:...
Mayakovsky! Your poems do not warm, do not excite, do not infect!
- My poems are not a stove, not a sea, and not a plague!
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Poems are our inner music, clothed in words, permeated with thin strings of meanings and dreams, and therefore, drive away the critics. They are just pathetic sippers of poetry. What can a critic say about the depths of your soul? Don't let his vulgar groping hands in there. Let poetry seem to him like an absurd moo, a chaotic pile-up of words. For us, this is a song of freedom from a boring mind, a glorious song sounding on the snow-white slopes of our amazing soul.
Boris Krieger. "A Thousand Lives"
Poems are the thrill of the heart, the excitement of the soul and tears. And tears are nothing more than pure poetry that has rejected the word.
The poetic world has always been something sublime, inaccessible to ordinary people. Not everyone is gifted with the talent of poetry, so those masters who have achieved success in this area are truly great writers. Their beautiful poems do not leave you indifferent and penetrate into the deepest corners of the soul.
The works of foreign and Russian classical poets are perceived as a standard of art. Many modern writers often draw inspiration from the works of “mastodons” or create their creations under the impression of reading a collection of poems by a particular author.
What themes are most common in poetry?
It is safe to say that historical events and the views of society had an important influence on the content and development of works in this genre. In Soviet times, poems were most often written about the war, homeland, everyday life, hard work, power and other important issues for that era.
Modern foreign and domestic authors pay considerable attention to the themes of love, emotional experiences and social problems. Much depends on the views and preferences of the writer, because if a person is passionate about the work he is doing, we can say that from his pen will come a real masterpiece that will be able to awaken the best emotions in readers and be remembered.
Today, domestic specialists are actively translating short foreign children's poems. European and American writers create truly very warm and kind works that are great for children and have a beneficial effect on their mental development.
The lyrics of foreign poems are competently conveyed by Russian translators. In some cases, experts carry out small adaptations of creations, allowing us to get rid of complex and unfamiliar realities to our people.
Many psychologists recommend reading such literature before bed, since poems have a beneficial effect on a person and allow him to fall asleep in a good mood. Of course, a lot depends on the topic of poetry and the complexity of its perception.
Be that as it may, the variety of books with foreign and domestic poems is surprising, so it’s not difficult to find an author whose works will truly delight the soul. You just need to visit our portal and start reading online those works that aroused your interest. You can also download any collection for free and without registration by selecting a file in epub, fb2, pdf, rtf or txt format.
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