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The Daisy

cerita Hans Christian Andersen part 3 :)

The daisy

Now listen! In the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself. There was a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of it; close by was a ditch, on its fresh green bank grew a little daisy; the sun shone as warmly and brightly upon it as on the magnificent garden flowers, and therefore it thrived well. One morning it had quite opened, and its little snow-white petals stood round the yellow centre, like the rays of the sun. It did not mind that nobody saw it in the grass, and that it was a poor despised flower; on the contrary, it was quite happy, and turned towards the sun, looking upward and listening to the song of the lark high up in the air.

The little daisy was as happy as if the day had been a great holiday, but it was only Monday. All the children were at school, and while they were sitting on the forms and learning their lessons, it sat on its thin green stalk and learnt from the sun and from its surroundings how kind God is, and it rejoiced that the song of the little lark expressed so sweetly and distinctly its own feelings. With a sort of reverence the daisy looked up to the bird that could fly and sing, but it did not feel envious. “I can see and hear,” it thought; “the sun shines upon me, and the forest kisses me. How rich I am!”

In the garden close by grew many large and magnificent flowers, and, strange to say, the less fragrance they had the haughtier and prouder they were. The peonies puffed themselves up in order to be larger than the roses, but size is not everything! The tulips had the finest colours, and they knew it well, too, for they were standing bolt upright like candles, that one might see them the better. In their pride they did not see the little daisy, which looked over to them and thought, “How rich and beautiful they are! I am sure the pretty bird will fly down and call upon them. Thank God, that I stand so near and can at least see all the splendour.” And while the daisy was still thinking, the lark came flying down, crying “Tweet,” but not to the peonies and tulips—no, into the grass to the poor daisy. Its joy was so great that it did not know what to think. The little bird hopped round it and sang, “How beautifully soft the grass is, and what a lovely little flower with its golden heart and silver dress is growing here.” The yellow centre in the daisy did indeed look like gold, while the little petals shone as brightly as silver.

How happy the daisy was! No one has the least idea. The bird kissed it with its beak, sang to it, and then rose again up to the blue sky. It was certainly more than a quarter of an hour before the daisy recovered its senses. Half ashamed, yet glad at heart, it looked over to the other flowers in the garden; surely they had witnessed its pleasure and the honour that had been done to it; they understood its joy. But the tulips stood more stiffly than ever, their faces were pointed and red, because they were vexed. The peonies were sulky; it was well that they could not speak, otherwise they would have given the daisy a good lecture. The little flower could very well see that they were ill at ease, and pitied them sincerely.

Shortly after this a girl came into the garden, with a large sharp knife. She went to the tulips and began cutting them off, one after another. “Ugh!” sighed the daisy, “that is terrible; now they are done for.”

The girl carried the tulips away. The daisy was glad that it was outside, and only a small flower—it felt very grateful. At sunset it folded its petals, and fell asleep, and dreamt all night of the sun and the little bird.

On the following morning, when the flower once more stretched forth its tender petals, like little arms, towards the air and light, the daisy recognised the bird’s voice, but what it sang sounded so sad. Indeed the poor bird had good reason to be sad, for it had been caught and put into a cage close by the open window. It sang of the happy days when it could merrily fly about, of fresh green corn in the fields, and of the time when it could soar almost up to the clouds. The poor lark was most unhappy as a prisoner in a cage. The little daisy would have liked so much to help it, but what could be done? Indeed, that was very difficult for such a small flower to find out. It entirely forgot how beautiful everything around it was, how warmly the sun was shining, and how splendidly white its own petals were. It could only think of the poor captive bird, for which it could do nothing. Then two little boys came out of the garden; one of them had a large sharp knife, like that with which the girl had cut the tulips. They came straight towards the little daisy, which could not understand what they wanted.

“Here is a fine piece of turf for the lark,” said one of the boys, and began to cut out a square round the daisy, so that it remained in the centre of the grass.

“Pluck the flower off” said the other boy, and the daisy trembled for fear, for to be pulled off meant death to it; and it wished so much to live, as it was to go with the square of turf into the poor captive lark’s cage.

“No let it stay,” said the other boy, “it looks so pretty.”

And so it stayed, and was brought into the lark’s cage. The poor bird was lamenting its lost liberty, and beating its wings against the wires; and the little daisy could not speak or utter a consoling word, much as it would have liked to do so. So the forenoon passed.

“I have no water,” said the captive lark, “they have all gone out, and forgotten to give me anything to drink. My throat is dry and burning. I feel as if I had fire and ice within me, and the air is so oppressive. Alas! I must die, and part with the warm sunshine, the fresh green meadows, and all the beauty that God has created.” And it thrust its beak into the piece of grass, to refresh itself a little. Then it noticed the little daisy, and nodded to it, and kissed it with its beak and said: “You must also fade in here, poor little flower. You and the piece of grass are all they have given me in exchange for the whole world, which I enjoyed outside. Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of your white petals a fragrant flower. Alas! you only remind me of what I have lost.”

“I wish I could console the poor lark,” thought the daisy. It could not move one of its leaves, but the fragrance of its delicate petals streamed forth, and was much stronger than such flowers usually have: the bird noticed it, although it was dying with thirst, and in its pain tore up the green blades of grass, but did not touch the flower.

The evening came, and nobody appeared to bring the poor bird a drop of water; it opened its beautiful wings, and fluttered about in its anguish; a faint and mournful “Tweet, tweet,” was all it could utter, then it bent its little head towards the flower, and its heart broke for want and longing. The flower could not, as on the previous evening, fold up its petals and sleep; it dropped sorrowfully. The boys only came the next morning; when they saw the dead bird, they began to cry bitterly, dug a nice grave for it, and adorned it with flowers. The bird’s body was placed in a pretty red box; they wished to bury it with royal honours. While it was alive and sang they forgot it, and let it suffer want in the cage; now, they cried over it and covered it with flowers. The piece of turf, with the little daisy in it, was thrown out on the dusty highway. Nobody thought of the flower which had felt so much for the bird and had so greatly desired to comfort it.

The Bird of Popular Song

edisi dua cerita dari Hans Christian Andersen! Hope you like it :)
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IT is winter-time. The earth wears a snowy garment, and looks like marble hewn out of the rock; the air is bright and clear; the wind is sharp as a well-tempered sword, and the trees stand like branches of white coral or blooming almond twigs, and here it is keen as on the lofty Alps.
The night is splendid in the gleam of the Northern Lights, and in the glitter of innumerable twinkling stars.
But we sit in the warm room, by the hot stove, and talk about the old times. And we listen to this story:
By the open sea was a giant’s grave; and on the grave-mound sat at midnight the spirit of the buried hero, who had been a king. The golden circlet gleamed on his brow, his hair fluttered in the wind, and he was clad in steel and iron. He bent his head mournfully, and sighed in deep sorrow, as an unquiet spirit might sigh.
And a ship came sailing by. Presently the sailors lowered the anchor and landed. Among them was a singer, and he approached the royal spirit, and said,
“Why mournest thou, and wherefore dost thou suffer thus?”
And the dead man answered,
“No one has sung the deeds of my life; they are dead and forgotten. Song doth not carry them forth over the lands, nor into the hearts of men; therefore I have no rest and no peace.”
And he spoke of his works, and of his warlike deeds, which his contemporaries had known, but which had not been sung, because there was no singer among his companions.
Then the old bard struck the strings of his harp, and sang of the youthful courage of the hero, of the strength of the man, and of the greatness of his good deeds. Then the face of the dead one gleamed like the margin of the cloud in the moonlight. Gladly and of good courage, the form arose in splendor and in majesty, and vanished like the glancing of the northern light. Nought was to be seen but the green turfy mound, with the stones on which no Runic record has been graven; but at the last sound of the harp there soared over the hill, as though he had fluttered from the harp, a little bird, a charming singing-bird, with ringing voice of the thrush, with the moving voice pathos of the human heart, with a voice that told of home, like the voice that is heard by the bird of passage. The singing-bird soared away, over mountain and valley, over field and wood—he was the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies.
We hear his song—we hear it now in the room while the white bees are swarming without, and the storm clutches the windows. The bird sings not alone the requiem of heroes; he sings also sweet gentle songs of love, so many and so warm, of Northern fidelity and truth. He has stories in words and in tones; he has proverbs and snatches of proverbs; songs which, like Runes laid under a dead man’s tongue, force him to speak; and thus Popular Song tells of the land of his birth.
In the old heathen days, in the times of the Vikings, the popular speech was enshrined in the harp of the bard.
In the days of knightly castles, when the strongest fist held the scales of justice, when only might was right, and a peasant and a dog were of equal importance, where did the Bird of Song find shelter and protection? Neither violence nor stupidity gave him a thought.
But in the gabled window of the knightly castle, the lady of the castle sat with the parchment roll before her, and wrote down the old recollections in song and legend, while near her stood the old woman from the wood, and the travelling peddler who went wandering through the country. As these told their tales, there fluttered around them, with twittering and song, the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies so long as the earth has a hill upon which his foot may rest.
And now he looks in upon us and sings. Without are the night and the snow-storm. He lays the Runes beneath our tongues, and we know the land of our home. Heaven speaks to us in our native tongue, in the voice of the Bird of Popular Song. The old remembrances awake, the faded colors glow with a fresh lustre, and story and song pour us a blessed draught which lifts up our minds and our thoughts, so that the evening becomes as a Christmas festival.
The snow-flakes chase each other, the ice cracks, the storm rules without, for he has the might, he is lord—but not the LORD OF ALL.
It is winter time. The wind is sharp as a two-edged sword, the snow-flakes chase each other; it seems as though it had been snowing for days and weeks, and the snow lies like a great mountain over the whole town, like a heavy dream of the winter night. Everything on the earth is hidden away, only the golden cross of the church, the symbol of faith, arises over the snow grave, and gleams in the blue air and in the bright sunshine.
And over the buried town fly the birds of heaven, the small and the great; they twitter and they sing as best they may, each bird with his beak.
First comes the band of sparrows: they pipe at every trifle in the streets and lanes, in the nests and the houses; they have stories to tell about the front buildings and the back buildings.
“We know the buried town,” they say; “everything living in it is piep! piep! piep!”
The black ravens and crows flew on over the white snow.
“Grub, grub!” they cried. “There’s something to be got down there; something to swallow, and that’s most important. That’s the opinion of most of them down there, and the opinion is goo-goo-good!”
The wild swans come flying on whirring pinions, and sing of the noble and the great, that will still sprout in the hearts of men, down in the town which is resting beneath its snowy veil.
No death is there—life reigns yonder; we hear it on the notes that swell onward like the tones of the church organ, which seize us like sounds from the elf-hill, like the songs of Ossian, like the rushing swoop of the wandering spirits’ wings. What harmony! That harmony speaks to our hearts, and lifts up our souls! It is the Bird of Popular Song whom we hear.
And at this moment the warm breath of heaven blows down from the sky. There are gaps in the snowy mountains, the sun shines into the clefts; spring is coming, the birds are returning, and new races are coming with the same home sounds in their hearts.
Hear the story of the year: “The night of the snow-storm, the heavy dream of the winter night, all shall be dissolved, all shall rise again in the beauteous notes of the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies!”

source : http://hca.gilead.org.il/popular.html

The Angel

Temen2, berhubung ane seneng ama si tante om Hans Christian Andersen, ane bakalan ngepost cerita2 karya si om. Simak ya. Artikan ndiri ya, hehe :D

The Angel

Whenever a good child dies, an angel of God comes down from heaven, takes the dead child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with him over all the places which the child had loved during his life. Then he gathers a large handful of flowers, which he carries up to the Almighty, that they may bloom more brightly in heaven than they do on earth. And the Almighty presses the flowers to His heart, but He kisses the flower that pleases Him best, and it receives a voice, and is able to join the song of the chorus of bliss.”

These words were spoken by an angel of God, as he carried a dead child up to heaven, and the child listened as if in a dream. Then they passed over well-known spots, where the little one had often played, and through beautiful gardens full of lovely flowers.

“Which of these shall we take with us to heaven to be transplanted there?” asked the angel.

Close by grew a slender, beautiful, rose-bush, but some wicked hand had broken the stem, and the half-opened rosebuds hung faded and withered on the trailing branches.

“Poor rose-bush!” said the child, “let us take it with us to heaven, that it may bloom above in God’s garden.”

The angel took up the rose-bush; then he kissed the child, and the little one half opened his eyes. The angel gathered also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few humble buttercups and heart’s-ease.

“Now we have flowers enough,” said the child; but the angel only nodded, he did not fly upward to heaven.

It was night, and quite still in the great town. Here they remained, and the angel hovered over a small, narrow street, in which lay a large heap of straw, ashes, and sweepings from the houses of people who had removed. There lay fragments of plates, pieces of plaster, rags, old hats, and other rubbish not pleasant to see. Amidst all this confusion, the angel pointed to the pieces of a broken flower-pot, and to a lump of earth which had fallen out of it. The earth had been kept from falling to pieces by the roots of a withered field-flower, which had been thrown amongst the rubbish.

“We will take this with us,” said the angel, “I will tell you why as we fly along.”

And as they flew the angel related the history.

“Down in that narrow lane, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; he had been afflicted from his childhood, and even in his best days he could just manage to walk up and down the room on crutches once or twice, but no more. During some days in summer, the sunbeams would lie on the floor of the cellar for about half an hour. In this spot the poor sick boy would sit warming himself in the sunshine, and watching the red blood through his delicate fingers as he held them before his face. Then he would say he had been out, yet he knew nothing of the green forest in its spring verdure, till a neighbor’s son brought him a green bough from a beech-tree. This he would place over his head, and fancy that he was in the beech-wood while the sun shone, and the birds carolled gayly. One spring day the neighbor’s boy brought him some field-flowers, and among them was one to which the root still adhered. This he carefully planted in a flower-pot, and placed in a window-seat near his bed. And the flower had been planted by a fortunate hand, for it grew, put forth fresh shoots, and blossomed every year. It became a splendid flower-garden to the sick boy, and his little treasure upon earth. He watered it, and cherished it, and took care it should have the benefit of every sunbeam that found its way into the cellar, from the earliest morning ray to the evening sunset. The flower entwined itself even in his dreams—for him it bloomed, for him spread its perfume. And it gladdened his eyes, and to the flower he turned, even in death, when the Lord called him. He has been one year with God. During that time the flower has stood in the window, withered and forgotten, till at length cast out among the sweepings into the street, on the day of the lodgers’ removal. And this poor flower, withered and faded as it is, we have added to our nosegay, because it gave more real joy than the most beautiful flower in the garden of a queen.”

“But how do you know all this?” asked the child whom the angel was carrying to heaven.

“I know it,” said the angel, “because I myself was the poor sick boy who walked upon crutches, and I know my own flower well.”


Then the child opened his eyes and looked into the glorious happy face of the angel, and at the same moment they found themselves in that heavenly home where all is happiness and joy. And God pressed the dead child to His heart, and wings were given him so that he could fly with the angel, hand in hand. Then the Almighty pressed all the flowers to His heart; but He kissed the withered field-flower, and it received a voice. Then it joined in the song of the angels, who surrounded the throne, some near, and others in a distant circle, but all equally happy. They all joined in the chorus of praise, both great and small,—the good, happy child, and the poor field-flower, that once lay withered and cast away on a heap of rubbish in a narrow, dark street.


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Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (lahir di Odense, Denmark bagian selatan, 2 April 1805 – meninggal di Rolighed dekat Kopenhagen, Denmark, 4 Agustus 1875 pada umur 70 tahun) adalah seorang penulis dan penyair berkebangsaan Denmark yang paling terkenal berkat karya dongengnya.


Kehidupan masa kecilnya

Andersen lahir di kawasan kumuh kota Odense, Denmark bagian selatan, pada 2 April 1805. Ayahnya, Hans Andersen adalah seorang pembuat sepatu yang miskin dan buta huruf yang merasa dirinya masih keturunan bangsawan. Sedangkan ibunya Anne Marie Andersdatter, bekerja sebagai buruh cuci.

Walau besar dalam lingkungan yang miskin, sejak kecil Hans Christian Andersen sudah mengenal berbagai cerita dongeng. Ia juga akrab dengan pertunjukkan sandiwara. Kendati tak mengenal bangku sekolah dan percaya takhayul, sang ibunya yang membuat H.C Andersen berkenalan dengan certa-cerita Rakyat.

Di kemudian hari, H.C. Andersen sempat melukiskan sosok sang Ibu dalam berbagai novelnya, misalnya dari cerita yang berjudul Hun Duede Ikke. Sayang Ibunya belakangan terjebak menjadi seorang pemabuk berat sebelum wafat pada 1833 di sebuah panti jompo.

Ayahnya seorang pencinta sastra. Lelaki itu kerap mengajak Hans menonton pertunjukkan sandiwara. Dalam otobiografinya, The True Story of My Life yang terbit pada tahun 1846, H.C. Andersen menulis, "Ayah memuaskan semua dahagaku. Ia seolah hidup hanya untukku. Setiap Minggu ia membuatkan gambar-gambar dan membacakan certa-cerita dongeng. hanya pada saat-saat seperti inilah aku melihat dia begitu riang, karena sesungguhnya ia tak pernah bahagia dalam kehidupannya sebagai seorang pengrajin sepatu". Pada tahun 1816 ayah H.C Andersen meninggal.

Sikap dan pengalaman dari orang tua itulah yang membuah H.C. Andersen tertarik dengan dunia mainan, cerita, sandiwara termasuk karya William Shakespeare.

Masa - masa sulit

Setelah ayahnya meninggal. H.C. Andersen yang belum lama mengenyam pendidikan formal akhirnya bekerja serabutan di antaranya pernah bekerja di sebuah pabrik rokok, magang di sebuah penjahit dan bekerja sebagai penenun. Ia terpaksa memburuh untuk memenuhi kebutuhan hidupnya.

Pada tahun 1819, ia pindah menuju ibu kota Denmark, Kopenhagen. Di sana ia berharap untuk menjadi seorang aktor, penyanyi atau penari. Tiga tahun di kota itu, ia menjalani kehidupan yang sulit.

Awalnya, Andersen sempat berhasil bergabung dengan Royal Theater. Tetapi ketika suaranya berubah karena masa pubertas, ia terpaksa meninggalkan panggung sandiwara. Andersen kemudian meninggalkan peran sebagai aktor dan penyanyi. Ia merasa lebih tepat dittunjuk sebagai penyair. Anderson mecoba menjadi seorang penulis sandiwara. tetapi sayang, semua karyanya ditolak dimana-mana.



Bertemu dengan Raja Denmark

Pada masa-masa sulit itulah dia bertemu dengan Raja Denmark, Frederik VI, yang tertarik dengan penampilan Hans muda. Raja Frederick kemudian mengirimkan Andersen untuk bersekolah. Berkat kebaikan raja, Andersen berkesempatan mengenyam pendidikan di sebuah sekolah bahasa di Slagelse dan Elsinore hingga 1927. Sebelum sekolah, ia sempat menerbitkan jilid pertama karyanya yang berjudul The Gost at Palnatoke's Grave (1822).

Di bangku sekolah, Andersen termasuk siswa tertinggal, lagipula dia menjalaninya dengan setengah hati. Menurutnya, kurun masa sekolah adalah masa-masa gelap dan menyakitkan dalam hidupnya. Dia merasa sangat tidak nyaman berada ditengah para siswa yang berusia enam tahun lebih muda dari dirinya. Kepala sekolahnya yang bernama Meilsing, yang rumahnya sempat ditempati Andersen, menyebut karakter pemuda ini sangat sensitf dan sukar ditenggang.

Beruntung, setamat dari sekolah bahasa, Andersen melanjutkan studi ke Universitas Kopenhagen. Salah seorang direktur Royal Theater, Jonas Collin, mendesak dia untuk menjalani pendidikan sampai tamat dan dia pula yang membiayai. Sambil kuliah, pada tahun 1828 Hans Christian menulis kisah perjalanan yang berjudul Fodreise fra Holmens Kanal Til Ostpynten af Amager (Berjalan kaki dari Kanal Holmen ke Titik Timur Amager).

Kisah ini mendapat sambutan yang luar biasa. Andersen menggarap ceritanya dengan meminjam gaya penulisan E.T.A Hoffmann seorang pengarang roman asal Jerman. Sejak itu, puisinya yang berjudul "The Dying Child" diterbitkan oleh sebuah jurnal sastra di Kopenhagen. Pada tahun 1829, Royal Theater juga mementaskan drama musik karya Andersen.

Andersen juga menuangkan kisah pribadinya dalam kumpulan puisi berjudul "Phantasier og Skisser" pada saat jatuh cinta pada Riborg Voigt. Sayang, cintanya tidak bersambut, karena perempuan itu menikah dengan lelaki lain pada 1831. "Aku benar-benar ingin mati saja", ujarnya kepada Edvard, anak laki-laki Jonas Collin. Saat itu secara tidak sadar ia menggemakan melankoli ala Goethe dalam "The Sorrows of young Werther". Meskipun ia tidak pernah bertemu Goethe, penyair Jerman sekalipun Goethe masih hidup ketika Hans berkelana ke Jerman.



Berkelana

Hans Christian Andersen pergi berkelana ke luar negeri selain Jerman. Hingga 1833, Raja Frederick VI bersedia membiayai seluruh perjalanan Andersen ke Perancis, Swedia, Spanyol, Portugal, Italia bahkan hingga Timur Tengah.

Berbagai kunjungan itu melahirkan setumpuk kisah perjalanan. Ketika melawat ke Paris, Andersen bertemu dengan Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine dan Balzac. Di tengah perjalanan panjang ini pula, ia sempat menyelesaikan penulisan "Agnette and the Merman".

Pada awal 1835, novel pertama Andersen terbit dan meraih sukses besar. Sebagai novelis, ia membuat terobosan lewat The Imrpvisator, karya yang ditulisnya pada tahun yang sama. Cerita yang mengambil setting Italia inimencerminkan kisah hidupnya sendiri; melukiskan upaya seorang bocah miskin masuk ke dalam lingkungan pergaulan masyarakat. Malah sampai akhir hayatnya, buku The Improvisatore inilah yang paling banyak dibaca orang banyak dibandingkan dengan karya karya Andersen yang lain. Sejak buku ini terbit, masa masa sulit Andersen mulai berubah. Sepanjang 1835, ia meluncurkan tujuh cerita dongeng yang disusun jauh hari sebelumnya.



Novel dan karya-karyanya

Untuk menggenapkan karyanya, Andersen melahirkan karya-karya novel baru pada 1836 dan 1837. Disamping puluhan cerita dongeng yang terbit dalam kurun waktu tersebut, novel kedua, O.T dan Only A Fiddler. Ia juga berpolemik dengan filusuf Denmark terkemuka, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard.

Lewat buku berjudul Af En Endnu Levendes papirer yang terbit pada tahun 1838, filsuf Denmark tersebut mengkritik habis novel-novel Andersen. "Pergulatan hidup tak menyenangkan yang dialami Andersen kini terulang lewat karya-karyanya," tulis kierkegaard.

Kritik itu segera dijawab Andersen lewat karyanya yang terbit pada 1840 yang berjudul En Comedie I det Gronne. Ia menyerang Kierkegaard dengan cerita yang menggambarkan betapa tidak praktisnya pemikiran sang filsuf tadi.

Kendati novel-novelnya mendapat sambutan besar, nama Hans Christian Andersen di dunia justru menjulang sebagai penulis dongeng anak-anak. Pada 1835, ia meluncurkan cerita anak-anak Tales for Children dalam bentuk buku saku berharga murah. Lalu kumpulan cerita bertajuk Fairy Tales and Story digarapnya dalam kurun 1836-1872.

Serial anak-anaknya yang kebanyakan terbit pada hari Natal itu tidak hanya kisah kisah yang dibuat olehnya. Andersen juga mengungkap kembali dongeng anak-anak yang kerap didengarnya semasa kecil. Sepanjang hayatnya ia menulis 156 cerita. Dari jumlah itu, 12 dongeng ditulisnya berdasarkan cerita rakyat Denmark. Selebihnya merupakan cerita khayali yang lahir dari buah pikirannya sendiri.

Dua dari cerita dongengnya yang amat kesohor, The Little Mermaid dan The Emperor's New Clothes, diterbitkan dalam kumpulan cerita pada 1837. Tujuh dongengnya yang lain: Little Ugly Duckling, The Tinderbox, Little Claus and Big Claus, Princess and the Pea, The Snow Queen, The Nightingale dan The Steadfast Tin Soldier, juga dikenal di berbagai belahan dunia sebagai cerita yang kerap didongengkan pada anak-anak.

Lewat berbagai karyanya, Andersen dinilai menerobos pagar-pagar baku yang dianut pengarang Denmark pada masa itu. Baik gaya penceritaan maupun isi ceritanya berhasil memasukkan idiom-idiom dan bahasa lisan yang merupakan hal baru dalam dunia 'kepengarangan' negeri itu. Ia memasukkan pesan dan nilai moral dalam ceritanya tanpa menggurui sama sekali.

Bisa dilihat dari kisah dongeng The Emperor's new Clothes. Pesan bahwa keserakahan itu tidak baik disampaikan Andersen lewat parodi raja lalim yang cukup menggelikan itu. Salah satu ciri lain yang menonjol dalam cerita dongeng Andersen adalah hadirnya kaum papa dan mereka yang tidak beruntung dalam hidup.

Dalam sebagian besar karyanya pun tampak optimismenya bahwa yang baik akan selalu menang dan meraih akhir yang bahagia. Kecuali kisah The little Mermaid dan The Little Match Girl yang berakhir dengan kesedihan. Dalam The Little Mermaid misalnya, Andersen berusaha mengungkapkan bahwa betapa keinginan meraih hal yang diimpikan ternyata berbuah nestapa.



Pengaruh karyanya di dunia kisah anak-anak

Tak bisa disangkal, cerita-cerita dongeng Andersen memang berisi pesan-pesan moral universal. Maka tidaklah mengherankan bila karya-karyanya itu kemudian diterjemahkan tak kurang ke dalam 147 bahasa di dunia. Buah tangannya pun tudak sebatas "pelajaran" untuk anak-anak melainkan dibaca oleh orang dewasa di seluruh dunia. Meski terjemahan karyanya baru muncul pertama kali dalam edisi bahasa Inggris pada 1846.

Bukan itu saja, H.C. Andersen disebut-sebut menanamkan banyak pengaruh kepada para penulis cerita lainnya di Eropa. Sebut saja Charles Dickens, pengarang Inggris yang terkenal dengan karya karya seperti A Christmas Carol in Prose, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, dan The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Juga pada pengarang Eropa lainnya seperti William Thackeray, Oscar Wilde dan C.S Lewis.

Dalam kurun 1840 hingga 1857, Andersen kembali melawat ke sejumlah egara Eropa, Turki, dan Afrika dan menuliskan kesan dalam buku-buku yang menuliskan kisah perjalanannya. Pada tahun 1855, Andersen menulis ulang memoarnya yang berjudul The Fairy Tale of My Life. Kisah hidup edisi ulang itulah yang hingga kini dinilai sebagai buku standar riwayat pendongeng legendaris ini.



Akhir hidup

Setelah berkelana lagi di Paris, Andersen jatuh sakit pada musim semi 1872. beberapa penyakit menggerogoti lelaki kurus ini. Selama tiga tahun terbaring tanpa daya di Rolighed dekat Kopenhagen, pengarang legendaris ini wafat pada 4 Agustus 1874. Ia dimakamkan dipemakaman khusus Kopenhagen.

Sepanjang hayatnya, H.C Andersen tidak pernah menikah. Patah hati mendalam rupanya dialami pengarang besar ini setelah cinta matinya kepada penyanyi opera berdarah Swedia, Jenny Lind, ternyata bertepuk sebelah tangan. Di peristirahatannya yang terakhir, H.C. Andersen hanya ditemani oleh guru sekaligus sahabatnya, Jonas Collin, yang dimakamkan bersebelahan dengannya.



Tamu yang tak tahu malu

Sepanjang hidupnya, Hans Christian Andersen ternyata tak pernah memiliki rumah. Sejak kecil hingga akhir hayatnya, ia selalu hidup di rumah para patron (tokoh masyarakat) yang kaya raya. Jika tidak, ia tinggal di kamar sewaan dengan perabot yang minim atau di hotel. Tetapi jika tidak sedang dalam perjalanan, ia pasti tinggal lama di rumah orang-orang yang cukup baik hati mengundangnya.

Tapi tidak semua tuan rumah bahagia dengan kunjungan Andersen. Pengarang ternama Inggris, Charles Dickens misalnya, akhirnya merasa terganggu oleh kehadiran Andersen di rumahnya. Andersen pertama kali berjumpa dengan Dickens ketika ia berkunjung ke Inggris pada tahun 1847. Keduanya saling mengagumi. Andersen menggambarkan, betapa bahagia dirinya ketika Dickens berkunjung ke penginapannya.

Sebenarnya tak jelas, seberapa dekat hubungan Dickens dengan Andersen ini. Tapi sebagian pengamat menyebut karakter Uriah Heep dalam David Coperfield, salah satu karya Dickens yang terbit empat tahun setelah pertemuan mereka berdua, ditulis Dickens berdasarkan karakter Andersen.

Ketika Andersen berkunjung ke Inggris, satu dasawarsa kemudian, Dickens tak sekedar menyambangi, ia malah mengundang Andersen tinggal di rumahnya. Menurut biografi Andersen yang ditulis Jackie Wullschlager, kunjungan di rumah Dickens ini jauh dari sukses.

Kala itu, Dickens dengan istrinya sedang dalam krisis perkawinan yang sungguh parah. Komunikasi mereka dengan Andersen pun tak terjalin baik. Maklum, suami-istri Dickens sama sekali tidak mengerti bahasa Denmark sedangkan bahasa Inggris Andersen jauh dari memadai. Hasilnya, keluarga Dickens segera menginginkan Andersen pergi.

Tapi, bukannya pergi, Andersen justru memperlama masa tinggalnya menjadi dua kali waktu yang diundang Dickens. "Kami benar-benar menderita karena Andersen," tulis Dickens dalam surat kepada salah satu sahabatnya. Ketika Andersen akhirnya pergi, Dickens menancapkan catatan di pintu kamar yang didiami Andersen. Di situ tertulis "Hans Andersen tidur di kamar ini selama lima minggu. Tapi bagi kami rasanya berabad-abad."

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