Pilgrim
Travel motives, wandering, Pilgrimages often become a metaphor for human life in literature (Life is uncertain., As Palladas wrote, which leads to one underground port), also a kind of trip inside yourself, searching for a road choice, sometimes escapes, forgetfulness. Both Greek mythology and the Bible perceived the fate of man in the perspective of hiking – not always safe, easy, forcing to make very difficult elections of the march. With the concept of pilgrimage in such a widely understood pilgrimage – It is not a pilgrimage to some specific place considered holy, But a long journey through life, whose end is only death.
The pilgrimage from this poem is not easy, long, All human life remains. A man wandering through them with every experience gained shapes his interior, forms in a spiritual sense. The final goal is to fuse with God. And precisely because of this final goal, should be, emphasizes the poet, adopt the appropriate value system, in which the collection of material goods does not play a significant role, It even hinders the development of the spirit. The rank of man, Its value is not determined by having anything, even a house:
You think, that I am not the Lord,
This is why, that my homemade house
With camel leather…
Collecting property, You can climb to the heights of the social hierarchy – The lyrical subject is aware of this, but he clearly rejects this path. Does not intend to be an aristocrat of money, wants to become an aristocrat of the spirit. He doesn't feel less valuable than rich people, contrary – He considers himself better, Its wealth has a much more valuable dimension, Because spiritual. Material goods could only make it difficult for him to pilgrimage, delay the procession of eternity. This is definitely a kind of renunciation, But achieving the intended goal fully rewards resignation from prosperity, material satisfaction, which – according to Norwid – it is not a essence of humanity.
Man striving for states of states (a kind of perfection, which, Due to the attributes of the spirit, will put him over every social state, above hierarchies resulting from wealth, Also births) All you need is as much soil as its foot has a cover. The meaning of life in this poem is to get closer to God, Therefore, the essence of human existence remains and the journey to God itself remains, rising towards him:
After all, in the heaven,
When it kidnaps my soul,
Like a pyramid!
Pilgrimage, in Norwid's approach, There is no earthly end, Auditation with God can only take place in eternal life. So the spiritual journey itself counts above all, Pilgrimage to the physical end of the march. Life bending to the dusk should lead at least near God.
The poem was made of four three -pass verses, in which the same metric pattern is repeated, the first two verses have nine applications, However, the last five. In the poem we find both male rhymes, as well as female in the ABC ABC system.
Men's rhymes – include words, in which the accent falls on the last syllable, single -syllable words rhymes. Such rhymes are more common than female.
Female rhymes – They appear in words, in which the penultimate syllables are emphasized, include one and a half syllables of a rhymed word, that is, the last syllable and one voice from the previous syllable.