A hymn to the love of the homeland

The poem was created two years before the first partition of Poland, w 1774 A pleasant and useful game appeared in the journal, He initiated the great literary career of its author. This confession of the poet's patriotic feelings clearly refers to one of the sermons of Piotr Skarga, priest, who consistently warned Poles about the dangers of their threatening, He called for the country to save. The Barska Confederation has become a direct inspiration to write this poem, The tragic end of this patriotic uprising. Poland from the hymn… This is the country almost conquered, Krasicki first made such a clear "ennoblement of captivity accessories" (bonds, it is not zeal. etc.), which somehow continued the independence tradition of Bar poetry.

Ignacy Krasicki offered this poem a kind of pattern of new patriotic lyrics, based on emphasis, displaying feelings of these poets, which the nation does not experience full independence, independence. This is the right beginning of independence poetry in Polish literature, which developed so wonderfully during the romantic period.

The hymn is a pathetic song (What results from the essence of this genre of poetic expression) praising the lofty idea. Turns directly to the addressees: all Poles, who are not indifferent to the matters of the homeland, especially to the good minds:

Holidays of the love of a beloved homeland,
You only feel good minds!
For you, the eaten tastes poisons,
For you, bonds, the felone is not zeal.

Krasicki often mocked various disadvantages, vices of Polish society – For example, nobility, religious clergy. He was involved in current political life, He was one of the main spokesmen of the royal camp. Condemned all of these, who put a private business above the good of the total, Poland's interests. He mocked and mocked, laughter and satire were his weapons in political discussions. In the hymn to the love of the homeland, this tone was rejected. The poet spoke pathetic (style of pathetic rhetoric), sublime, festive. When it comes to saving the threatened Polish -Lithuanian Commonwealth, defined as a hot patriot. Creates epithets referring to the most important moral values – np. Holidays of Love, glorious scars. It also builds oxymorons, This is a statement of words containing an apparent contradiction, with a strong emotional character: Fate taste poisons, you educate disability, bonds, the felone is not zeal. Despite this emotionality, a song, Like all Krasicki's writing, It refers primarily to the reason of reason.

You have to sacrifice everything for your homeland, It should be supported, support with all your strength. This is the responsibility of every patriot – even, If it comes to this attitude, pay the highest price. Poems expressing a similar belief arose a lot during the romantic period, in later years, When Poland finally lost its independence. The hymn to the love of the homeland is one of the greatest achievements of patriotic enlightenment lyrics.

The song of Ignacy Krasicki has even become our national anthem for some time. Every day he was sang by the cadets of the knightly school, which many outstanding Poles completed. It is interesting, that the hymn to the love of the homeland was announced by the poet in the text of the parody of the Epos titled Myszeis. It was the first heroicomic poem of Ignacy Krasicki, Viewing a victorious fight fought by mice and rats and being a moral satire on contemporary.

Hymny is a very old literary species, For centuries, he has been celebrating some ideas or gods, heroes. As a rule, the hymns were pathetic, that is, solemn, sublime. Not, Like the poem of Krasicki – Starting from the apostrophe (that is, a return to the fictitious addressee, In this case, homeland) talking about suffering, the victim accompanying the service for the homeland.

Krasicki in Munich in Munich:

Grateful love of beloved Szklenice!
Everyone and weak feels you, and healthy;
Dark basements are nice for you,
For you, bearable shortness of breath and headache,
You sweeten the flexius, You relieve the longing,
Comfort in you, The profit is ready.
If you can find you, just buy,
Do not regret to taste, I don't feel sorry and get drunk.