Why is Peterak considered as the father of modern poetry?

Peterak is famous for his bold pursuit of personal fame and love. 134 1 year, Peterak was crowned as the "Poet Laureate" symbolizing Rome's highest honor. A few years ago, his predecessor Dante disdained to accept the title of poet. In Peterak's view, Rome represents classical culture. This laurel woven with olive leaves is a continuation of ancient Greek and Roman culture, and Peterak is proud of it. At the same time, Rome also represents Italy, and the honor given by the motherland is of great significance to Peterak. Winning this honor is the ultimate goal of his life. Only in this way, Peterak's thought full of personality surpassed his predecessor Dante. Although Dante is also full of infinite love for his motherland, he still can't accept the poet laureate outside Florence. Can it be said that, to some extent, there are unfavorable factors in the research and recognition of Dante's achievements in the Renaissance literary world? From the disadvantaged groups of the bourgeoisie to the occupation of the social, political, economic and cultural stage, holding high the banner of individualism is the source of ideological theory. Peterak's highest honor as a scholar and poet is due to his extraordinary talent and his personality.

In addition, from the yearning for Laura, he felt the sweetness and confusion of human love, and expressed these true feelings in words, creating a masterpiece that revealed his personality and surpassed his predecessors. 1327, in a church in avignon, the poet met Laura, a woman with "superior moral character" and incomparable charm in his eyes. He was infected by her restrained charm. The short encounter triggered infinite thinking, and sincere feelings inspired the poet's talent. He expressed his secret love with the most beautiful words in his poems and collected hundreds of them. This unique pioneering work of expressing secular love in poetry is quite different from the Christian spirit that regards love for God as the highest realm. The poet first rushed out of the door of physical and mental desires that seemed to be firmly locked for thousands of years and became a pioneer in leading the Renaissance fashion. In the dark tones of the Middle Ages, secular Peterak painted bright colors. According to the record, Laura is really beautiful and charming. She married an earl and had 12 children. Her admiration for Peterak is a tacit approval. Laura's fame in Peterak's works suddenly increased so much that even his friends mistook her for his imaginary woman. Speaking of the poet's evaluation of Laura's "superior moral character", in fact, Peterak may not know Laura's moral character. At that time, there was a popular idea in Italian society that the elegant appearance of women symbolized the inner lofty virtue.

His important views on poetry can be found in a large number of letters. In these letters, Peterak talked about the essence of poetry. He believes that, just as the name of Christ in Christian theology often changes, if words are vividly expressed by metaphors, they should be called poems. This is also called metaphor. In particular, he pointed out that theologians should also belong to the ranks of poets by expressing divinity in lofty language and weaving prayers with elegant rhythm and novel methods. This poetic argument of bringing theologians into the ranks of poets is not to expand the concept of poets, but to demonstrate that theology is also poetry and poetry is also theology. His friend Boccaccio later demonstrated this point.

Secondly, he believes that the poet's duty is to express the truth of the ordinary, nature and everything with charming fiction. Only in this way can the profound connotation of poetry be easily concealed by the relaxed surface pleasure, which is difficult for others to find. Peterak first pointed out that nature's feelings for people are important, but more importantly, self-awareness, which has been fully demonstrated in his works, has also become the reason why his works are easy to communicate with modern people. For example, his masterpiece songji, the first 126:

I remember happily.

From that beautiful branch

Flowers rained down on her chest.

She sat humbly in this honor.

Bathed in colorful love.

In his later years, Peterak also put forward his own views on the position of poetry and philosophy. In the era of the supremacy of theology in the Middle Ages, philosophy served theology, and poetry, especially secular poetry and philosophy, was inferior. Although Peterak is still supported by theology, he is firmly on the side of poetry. He used the dialogue between "happiness" and "reason" to prove that the poet's knowledge is better than that of the philosopher. Taking "beauty" as an example, Peterak highly recognized Virgil's statement that "virtue is more attractive from a beautiful body". He thinks this charm is the most accurate statement, because it comes not from the thing itself, but from the viewer's judgment. Peterak called beauty the decoration of virtue and thought that beauty should be enriched in the spiritual world. In another letter, he talked about his deep feelings about beauty and predicted one of the themes of the whole Renaissance poetry. In his letter, he said: "When I was young, I was eager to compile a beautiful collection of poems, although I knew little about other writers at that time. The chapter of that year is still there, and there are some notes in the margin, which clearly shows how precocious I am and how noisily I think about my present and future destiny. What I wrote was not the splendor of words, but the truth of thoughts: the anguish of this life was fleeting and swept away, her trap never came again, flower of life died in a hurry, the beauty of roses was not there often, youth suddenly left and never returned, and old age approached quietly. Finally, wrinkles climb on the brow, illness, sadness and torture, but in the end, alas, death comes unexpectedly. "

He also studied Dante deeply, and recognized and imitated his poetic thoughts and works. For example, although he tried his best to restore the status of Latin, he also wrote a Collection of Folk Songs. In a letter to a friend, he wrote:

"You will believe my solemn assurance that I am always full of joy in the talent and works of this person (Dante). Every time I mention it, I will be full of praise. Sometimes I enlighten some people, and they sharply criticize me, saying that he is not always suitable for himself, that is, in writing poems and compositions, he is more outstanding in colloquialism than in Latin. You can't deny that. In the eyes of a man with wise judgment, this does not damage his glory and reputation. Because who can master everything? "

Sonnet style is mainly used in Peterak's poems. Sonnet is a short poem popular in medieval Europe, used for singing. Its language comes from French Provence Sonet. During the Italian Renaissance, this kind of poem was widely used by poets because of its brevity, beautiful rhyme and relaxed lyricism, among which Peterak was the most successful, also known as "Peterak's poetic style". Since Peterak wrote countless beautiful and lyrical poems in this style, it spread rapidly and became a common poetic style in the Renaissance, and sonnets almost became synonymous with Renaissance poetry. Peterak wrote 375 sonnets in his life, which became the most representative poem. Peterak wrote in sonnets.

His poems are straightforward, fresh, natural and elegant in rhythm, reaching the peak of the most perfect art of his time. .