What does the poem have to do with the Age of Enlightenment?
How can we tell that Lessing's poem "The Bee" was written in this era?
As Cupid in the golden age
In love with shepherd's festivities
On colorful flower fields ran,
Then the smallest of the gods
A bee that is in rose petals,
Where it used to collect honey, it slept.
This sting made Cupid wiser.
The inexhaustible deceiver
Thought of a new stratagem:
He listens in roses and violas;
And a girl came to get her,
He flew out as a bee and stung.
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Lessing wrote it, and he was one of the well-known German enlighteners. Otherwise, the poem m.M.n. has nothing to do with enlightenment, but is a poem from the rococo, I would appreciate 40s of the 18th. Jhds. The theme is “sacceptability”… i.e. the galantic love life, whose description here serves as a model for the society of the nobles. Amor transforms his little malheur (that he has been stabbed by the bee) into a tactics: he strikes himself when a girl comes. And in this picture it is, on the one hand, that he shoots people with arrows and bows, and that makes them fall in love, on the other hand: … a girl stabs … also has a fairly similar sexual component, I find. So femoral clerk-humor… model function here has the joke (so the idea to apply the bee tactics to its own world): Be funny, you’re a model.