Petőfi started his career as a poet with "popular situation songs", a genre to which his first published poem, "A borozó" ("The Wine Drinker", 1842), belongs. It is the song of a drinker praising the healing power of wine to drive away all troubles. This kind of pseudo-folk song was not unusual in Hungarian poetry of the 1840s, but Petőfi soon developed an original and fresh voice which made him stand out. He wrote many folk song-like poems on the subjects of wine, love, romantic robbers etc. Many of these early poems have become classics, for example the love poem "A virágnak megtiltani nem lehet" ("You Cannot Forbid the Flower", 1843), or "Befordultam a konyhára" ("I Turned into the Kitchen", 1843) which uses the ancient metaphor of love and fire in a playful and somewhat provocative way.