What Is The Mood Of The Poem Fresfeier

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Reger composed the second duet to a text from Ulrich Steindorff’s (1888-1978) first poetry collection, which was published in 1909, the same year as Reger’s composition. Steindorff’s later works include several dramas, but he became most known for his translations of English and American literature. The title “Frühlingsfeier” arouses the expectation of a human celebration of spring, yet the poem does not contain any reference to human activity. Like in “Waldesstille”, the speaker just describes the experience of nature without reference to him- or herself, thus allowing the readers to experience it through him or her. This similarity between the poems might explain Reger’s choice to set them after each other even though they are stylistically very different. …show more content…

Despite the free metre, the poem has a strict form with an elaborate rhyme scheme: The rhyme [-ɔrɡən] twice encloses the same two rhyming couplets, the second of which ends with identic words, as do the first and the last verse of the poem. The only enjambments connect the third to the fourth, and the eighth to the ninth verse. This cyclic structure might represent the cyclic nature of life and the renewal of nature in spring. The poem starts with a juxtaposition of nouns that draw the reader into the scene. All of them have positive connotations as they can be associated with life or hope. The first verse refers to a specific moment in time, a Sunday morning in spring. Both parts of the compound noun “Frühlingsmorgen” (v. 1) symbolise hope and youth. “Sonntag” (“Sunday”), which becomes “Sonnentag” (“sunny day”) in the last verse of the poem, is the day of the sun, the source of light and life, which are juxtaposed in the second

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