Świtezianka
The ballad speaks above all about the absolute obligation to keep an oath. The shooter for failure to meet the promise is very severely punished: His soul will wander the ground for all times, He won't find peace.
Adam Mickiewicz's poem is distinguished not only by the subject and style taken from folk work. The moral instructions contained in this song also bear a similar character. Świtezianka does not have very good ideas of the nature of men. Thinks, that although they say beautiful words, It is in their hearts that Lisa is hidden. They are also variable in their feelings, Nymph is constantly afraid of male hypocrisy, it's hard to believe in hot assurances. And the oath should always be kept, regardless of the circumstances and obstacles. There is a severe punishment for breaking it, Both in earthly life, as well as after the death of an unfaithful lover:
Comply, shooting, That my work:
Because whoever violates the oath,
Oh woe to him, Woe during life!
And woe to his evil soul!
The oath is a holy thing in this ballad. You must not forget about it for a moment, Even if you were subjected to the greatest temptations. Nic, The narrator of the song instructs, cannot justify infidelity. The shooter forgot about the oath, he has to be charged with water beauty:
He forgot his girlfriend,
He despised the holy oath.
He's deep in the depth,
New lured by detection.
In the ballad, the words about it are repeated again, what awaits this, who violated the oath. Even more, The fate of the infidel is described, His body will absorb the earth, However, the soul is waiting even more cruel:
And the soul with this aware tree
Let him wait a thousand years old,
Eternally infernal suffering Zarzew,
There is nothing to extinguish the hot.
These are the most important life instructions (In fact, very simple) contained in the ballad of Adam Mickiewicz. It is extremely harsh morality, There is no mercy within it, forgiving the deficiencies of human character. The narrator does not think about it, how difficult the attempt had to go through the shooter and how short the moment of his weakness was. For this moment he will have to pay a thousand -year penalty, suffering.
Świtezianka is a ballad, a literary study of a folk oral message, stories, that is, the so -called. artistic ballad (Unlike the authentic folk). The narrator tells the song, Witness of the presented events, which there is a lot in the story, sometimes surprising. In this sense, the ballad is an epic work. However, the poetic language of the poem is approaching the lyrics, its comparisons, epithets, Sound words. onomatopoeia.
There is a third -person narrative in Mickiewicz's ballad, We don't learn anything about the narrator himself describing and commenting on the events, also trying to modernize and authenticate them.