Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt on the Main and died in 22 March 1832 in Weimar. He counts as the top German poet and was the most famous agent of this literary current. Goethe’s works include poems, dramas, but also natural science. They range from poems to plays and short tales to novels, but one of his most popular forms of artistic expression was the ballad. By publishing the Roman “Die Leiden des jungen Werthers” (the Sorrows of Young Werther), he became popular in Europe. Goethe is most known for his poem Faust, which got published in 1808. That story is about someone, who starts in heaven, but gets seduced by the devil. Goethe’s works had a huge influence on later literary movements and they are still very common in school and college lessons. Together with Friedrich Schiller, he represents the time period ‘Weimar Classism’ (Boyle). Most likely his poems are love poems, which include nature and religion in the diversity of stylistic devices and symbols. His works, typically written in old fashioned language, usually got a huge space for interpretations and almost all of them still counts as very important, especially for the German language. Famous poems of Goethe are for example „Erlkönig“(Erl-king) or “Naehe des Geliebten” (Nearness of the Beloved One). Johann Wolfgang Goethe published “Der Erlkönig” in 1782. Around that time, he got an offer to work for Duke Karl August in Weimar, Germany. Duke Karl August was very famous for their ballads, so, Goethe wrote his earliest ballads during his time there. “Nähe des Geliebten” got written in 1795 and got published in 1796. Both of the poems are arranged in the “Weimar Classism”. The first stanza of “Nearness of the Beloved One” describe... ... middle of paper ... ... one hand, the ‘Erl-king’ takes places in the forest at night, while the destination is a farm. On the other hand, ‘Nearness of the Beloved One’ is about a port, swish of the waves and walks in the grove. In both of the poems are also a lot feeling and the relationships are important. In the first poem, the lady obviously desires for her love. This is a very romantic poem and there are some key words like night, stars, or moon’s glimmer. In the other poem, the Erl-king seems to want physical contact with the son. Additionally, the father tries to appease his son, holds him in his arms, and hushes up when he also gets afraid. That poem has a diversity of ways to interpret it, but it implies feelings and love for sure. Summing up, Goethe was an interesting person, who used high literarily language in his romantic, with works fulfilled by feelings and symbols.
Robert Frost is very successful poet from the 20th century, as well as a four time Pulitzer Prize winner. Robert Frost work was originally published in England and later would be published in the US. He was also considered one of the most popular and respected poets of his century. Robert Frost created countless of poems and plays, many of them containing similar themes. Some of the most popular themes found in his poems encompass isolation, death and everyday life.
...al part of German society does not sit well with Goethe, and he obviously expressed his views against it. Yet these views did not extend to him. Goethe eventually became a government official under the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and was ennobled in 1782 (HIST.146 2/5/14). Social order and class were issues that eventually led to World War I, and Goethe was right in opposing them. His inability to resist conformity, like Frederick the Great, shows his contrasting personality. Goethe played a crucial and essential role in German unification, and he stayed on that path by criticizing the royal court. His acceptance of nobility showed that he was not immune to the ideas of the state and that German nationality depended on his own opportunistic views. Like Frederick, what Goethe defined as German was his personal ideas and actions, not the views of the people.
Both poems are set in the past, and both fathers are manual labourers, which the poets admired as a child. Both poems indicate intense change in their fathers lives, that affected the poet in a drastic way. Role reversal between father and son is evident, and a change of emotion is present. These are some of the re-occurring themes in both poems. Both poems in effect deal with the loss of a loved one; whether it be physically or mentally.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe began writing The Sorrows of Young Werther in the early part of 1774. It was written during the Sturm and Drang period in Germany. Sturm and Drang, or more conventionally known as Storm and Stress, was an attempt by people in this period to free themselves from the strict rationalism of the enlightenment period. It is about a young man, Werther, who finds himself in an impossible situation. He is in love with a young woman named Charlotte. Despite knowing that Charlotte is already engaged to another man, Werther continues to ...
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At First the article Touches on the questioning of what Faust is. In summery, Faust is the protagonist of an old German story about a guy who is actually really successful, but at the same time is somewhat dissatisfied with his life life. He had a serious lust for earthly happiness, alo...
On the other side, “Love Poem” is very different from the previous poem. This seven stanza poem is based on a man describing the imperfections of his lover. In this, the speaker uses stylistic devices, such as alliteration and personification to impact more on reader, for example as the speaker shows “your lipstick ginning on our coat,”(17) ...
In 1869, composer Richard Wagner invited Nietzsche to spend a winter holiday with him in Tribschen. Wagner was living with another man’s wife and was not known for his conformity. Somehow, Wagner appealed to Nietzsche’s sense of adventure. Nietzsche was so taken by Wagner that he decided his first book would be a tribute to Wagner’s music. Unfortunately, the writing this work was delayed by war in 1870, when Germany and ...
Both poems represent the despairs and failures of the love they hone for their beloved, with brings a touch of sadness to the poems. From this the reader can feel almost sympathetic to the unrequited lovers, and gain an understanding of the perils and repercussions of love.
Shakespeare’s sonnets include love, the danger of lust and love, difference between real beauty and clichéd beauty, the significance of time, life and death and other natural symbols such as, star, weather and so on. Among the sonnets, I found two sonnets are more interesting that show Shakespeare’s love for his addressee. The first sonnet is about the handsome young man, where William Shakespeare elucidated about his boundless love for him and that is sonnet 116. The poem explains about the lovers who have come to each other freely and entered into a relationship based on trust and understanding. The first four lines reveal the poet’s love towards his lover that is constant and strong and will not change if there any alternation comes. Next four lines explain about his love which is not breakable or shaken by the storm and that love can guide others as an example of true love but that extent of love cannot be measured or calculated. The remaining lines of the third quatrain refer the natural love which can’t be affected by anything throughout the time (it can also mean to death). In the last couplet, if
As a resourceful poet and artiste during the Enlightenment Age; Goethe’s poetry debates on the far-reaching theory, that man is willing to go above and beyond to achieve his goals. According to Adina Bodrogean, “Enlightenment meant in the English literature a disruption from the previous trends in the literature and cultural philosophy, stand point and ideas. The new spirit of the age was the strong belief in light and culture as the only means of influencing the nature of man.”(Bodrogean). Faust himself represents the Enlightenment; in his pursuit of escaping his tasteless life.
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Friedrich Schiller, born Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, was an influential German poet, historian, dramatist, and playwright during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Schiller became one of the most universally acclaimed figures in German literature due to his works that exhibited the themes of human freedom and the necessity of justice. His early plays were characterized by the overthrow of corruption and tyranny, but his later works became renowned for their realistic and classical subjects, often featuring how humans uphold the principle of rising above the sleaze and corruption in order to attain solemnity through pacific means. The influence of Schiller has practically disappeared from the English-speaking world, but in Germany, his works are venerated as a crown of literary triumph along with those of his contemporary Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
It is accurate to suggest that an interdependent relationship exists between the individual and society. It is also accurate to state that in order for both the individual and society to flourish, the two entities must complement one another in values, beliefs and needs. It may be perceived that through carefully constructed characterisation throughout his eighteenth century novel ‘The Sufferings of Young Werther’, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe holistically depicts the way in which the relationship between society and the individual can shape the individual, how the individual, having been rejected from society, can become a body of self destruction and the way in which relationships throughout society can be shaped in response to conflicting perspectives of the individual and society as a whole.