A young man loves a girl
A young man loves a girl is a poem by Heinrich Heine from 1822. In his book of songs . it is listed as the 39th poem in the Lyric Intermezzo . The poem is about how a broken love ultimately takes on unique meaning when it hits you.
text
A young man loves a girl,
She has chosen another;
The
other loves another, and has married her.
The girl out of anger marries
the first best man who got in
her way;
The youth is in bad shape.
It is an old story,
but it always remains new;
And whoever it just happened
to, his heart breaks in two.
shape
The poem consists of three stanzas with four verses each. The poem is of a reporting nature. The meter is not regular, it alternates constantly between iambi and anapaste . Male and female cadences , on the other hand, alternate, with the first verse of the respective stanza always having a female ending.
interpretation
The repetition of the word “andern / andre” shows the playful character of love, its randomness and the lack of any intention. The fact that love occurs often is signaled by everyday phrases: "The other person loves another", "ran into" or "badly off". Likewise, there is no poetic exaggeration of love. The essence of the poem is not the failure of love (“It's an old story”), but the state of being struck by this banality itself. The impure rhyme “new” - “in two” makes this linguistically clear. Only in the last verse does a poeticization take place (“His heart breaks in two”).
Settings
- Robert Schumann : A young man loves a girl , in: Dichterliebe , op.48 No. 11.
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Notes and individual references
- ↑ Published in 1827 in the Book of Songs