这是安徒生有所感而写的,而且主要牵涉到他自己:他的作品一直被某些人忽视,没有能得到应当的评价,正如“天上落下的一片叶子”。但这片叶子却得到了一个女孩的喜爱,珍藏在《圣经》里,死时还带进她的棺材,但是“谁也不知道”。这里安徒生是在讽刺当时的一些“评论家”——他们并不懂得真正艺术作品的价值。 It was written by Andersen, and mainly related to himself: his work has been neglected by some and has not been properly appraised as “a fallen leaf in heaven.” But the leaf was loved by a girl, hidden in the Bible, and brought into her coffin upon her death, but “nobody knows”. Here Andersen is satirizing some of the “critics” of the time - they do not understand the value of the real work of art.