Selected Poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Penguin Classics)
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0140424563
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical, and the works selected in this volume represent more than sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus,' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervor, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a love affair. The Roman Elegies show Goethe's use of Classical meters in an homage to ancient Rome and its poets, and 'The Diary,' suppressed for more than a century, is a narrative poem whose eroticism is combined with its morality. In selections from Faust, arguably his greatest and most personal work, Goethe creates an exhilarating depiction of humankind's eternal search for truth.
• Dual-language edition
• David Luke's exquisite verse translations are arranged chronologically
• Includes an introduction and notes that place the poems in the context of the poet's life and times, as well as indexes of German and English titles and first lines
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Standen sie auf und wandelten nieder, das Feld hin, But I’ve been wondering now: what should my behaviour to you be, Who as the son of the house will one day be my lord and my master?’ Thus she spoke, and at that very moment they came to the pear-tree. Splendidly now the moon shone down from the sky in its fullness; Night had fallen, the sun’s last glow was hidden completely. So before them lay darkness and light in masses contrasting, Light as bright as the day, and darkening shadows of.
Chair over, seize The pretty creature – but she whispers: ‘Please, Not now! My aunt’s downstairs, she listens when I serve up here, and checks how long I stay; She brandishes her cane, the old harridan, And punishes each minute of delay. But stay awake, don’t lock your door, and then When midnight comes, maybe we’ll find a way.’ She wriggles free from my embrace, and slips Back to her work; soon in again she trips Doch blickend auch! so daß aus jedem Blicke Sich himmlisches Versprechen.
Hearer’s imagination to create an element of mystery. As a poet and dramatist, Goethe must have recognized the vivid and powerful effects that could be obtained in this way. The Gretchen sequence has been described as a dramatic application of this folk-ballad technique: a headlong rush of scenes, omitting inessentials, but all leading to a simple and devastating climax. In addition, Gretchen herself is like a figure in a ballad or folktale; she is märchenhaft, and her situation as a girl.
Obscurely in the depths of the historical–critical Weimar edition of Goethe’s works, was not revealed until more than a hundred years after he had written it. The paradoxical ‘moral’ of the poem, namely the observation that the penis itself may come to the aid of loving fidelity, cannot be faulted even from a Christian point of view. For a more detailed discussion of The Diary see Erotic Poems (introduction and notes). 58–77. West-Eastern Divan This last major cycle of Goethe’s lyric poems,.
Journey. From Carlsbad, at the beginning of September 1786, he set out and travelled directly southwards without returning to Weimar, but continuing through Bavaria, via the Brenner Pass, Lake Garda, Verona, Vicenza and Venice (where he saw the sea for the first time in his life) and then pressing on to Rome, the true goal of his pilgrimage, where he arrived at the end of October. He took modest lodgings and spent in the first instance about four months in Rome, associating with the German colony.