Picture series poem

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The picture series poem is a form of poetry that converts a thought or subject formulated in the heading, at the beginning and end of the whole poem or a single stanza into a series of corresponding pictures, with the individual pictures briefly (one picture per verse) or more extensive (one image per stanza).

This type, which emerges from the dualism of image and essence , appears particularly frequently in Baroque poetry , for example in Andreas Gryphius ' Menschliches Elende , Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau's Die Welt or Georg Philipp Harsdörffer's Was ist die Ange Welt .

As an example of the baroque form of the picture series poem, the Kurtze Reimen / From vanity of human life by Josua Stegmann , in which the first two verses set the theme:

What is our lifetime /
All of effort and beauty /

Then follows the long series of figurative correspondences:

... /
A dust that arises with the wind /
A snow that goes away in spring /
A pale water so soon melts away /
A rainbow disappears so soon /
A fog that chases away the sun /
A blush as long as it is day / A thaw
consumed by the heat /
A leaf turned upside down by the wind /
A beautiful glass breaks so soon /
A flower so soon does not become /
... /

It closes with the request:

Help Lord that after the short time /
We inherit the happy eternity.

Image series poems can also be found occasionally in folk songs and in romantic poetry by Theodor Storm and, in the 20th century, by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Georg Heym and Ruth Schaumann .

literature

  • Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 29 f ..
  • Rudolf Nikolaus Maier: The picture series poem . In: Wirkendes Wort 3 (1952/53), p. 132
  • Rudolf Nikolaus Maier: The poem. About the nature of the poetic and poetic forms . Düsseldorf 1956.
  • Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 91.

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