Anacreontics

Anacreontics (Greek ) is an ancient Greek poet Anacreon after (6th century BC), named style of the German and European poetry in the 18th century ( Rococo ). She is playful and gallant and revolves around the themes of love, friendship, nature, wine and socializing. The Anacreontics goes back to the poetry collection Anakreonteia.

The German Anacreontics

1733 translated Johann Christoph Gottsched the first some of the ancient poems anacreontic stylistically and metrically safe in the German language. The aim of these translations was mainly focused on improving the poetic expressions in German. 1743 appear the joke songs sticking to the model of Anacreon, published by a Bauzne by Christian Nicholas Naumann. However, it does not create Naumann, trigger a flow Anacreontic in Germany. Too much he is still arrested the metaphors and the baroque style in his language. 1744 Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim now published his attempt at jocular songs. A short time later Johann Peter Uz publish and Johann Nikolaus Götz the Odes of Anacreon in blank verse. The foundations were created - the Odes of Anacreon are completely transferred for the first time in the German language, and a first publication, which provides only poems in the style of Anacreon is, in the literary marketplace. As a result, a lively imitation of the poems of Anacreon, which is relatively narrow in their motives and their formal structure developed.

The topics of the Anacreontics are the joy of the world and on life ( " carpe diem" ). This is reflected in the representation of love, friendship and companionship, of enjoying wine and the enjoyment of nature. Also, the density itself is often subject. The room depicted in the poem is often a graceful and lovely ( Amoene ) landscape. Often personnel occurs on the ancient world of gods. So in conjunction with the wine especially Dionysus and Bacchus, in conjunction with the love of Cupid and Eros and especially with Gleim eg Cithere (after the Greek island of Kythira, there was a sanctuary of Aphrodite ).

Formally, the frame is relatively narrow: The meter of Anacreontics is the three - or vierhebige pentameter, often with a feminine cadence. In contrast to the baroque Alexandrians this verse conveys a light, trifling impression, so it fits the theme of. Also the rhyme missing in a strictly anacreontic poem, as well as the division into stanzas. This will need other means of articulation. This is primarily achieved through rhetorical figures of repetition on sound, word, and sentence level.

This leads to a great redundancy in the text. The reader is clear that a rationalist interpretation would be inappropriate; This seal should be included sensual.

From about 1770 the poet Klopstock, Herder, Goethe, and soon turned away and instead is oriented towards Pindar, sublime poetry to an increasing extent by the anacreontic poetry. This is used for example in Goethe's poem The Eagle and the Dove of 1772 expressed.

German -speaking representatives of Anacreontics were (temporarily):

Leporello's aria

While most works of German Anacreontics have sunk into oblivion after the end of this literary mode again, lives a work - albeit without the context would have been known - still further: Anacreon poem XXXII on his girls, is one of many possible templates da Ponte for Leporello's aria in Mozart's Don Giovanni Lorenzo took to help. It can be assumed with certainty that this allusion was aware of the Anacreontic seal the former audience.

Classical antiquity Lyric poetry Anacreontea Johann Uz Cadence (poetry) Alexandrine Strophe Data redundancy
60018
de