The friendship (poem)

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The friendship is a poem written by Friedrich Schiller .

analysis

The poem has ten stanzas with six verses each. The stanzas begin with a pair of rhymes followed by a block rhyme.

background

The poem is integrated into a fictional correspondence between two young men. The youths invented by Schiller are essentially opposing people. Their names are Julius and Raphael. "Friendship" is a statement by Julius that is directed at Raphael. Schiller wanted to write a novel with these letters, which deal with truth, morality and the revolution of thought. But this did not happen.

content

The poem is about Julius having a friend.

"[...] Out of millions have wound around you, And out of millions you are mine [...]"

That makes him happy

"Happy! happy! I found you [...] ”.

A friend is like heaven on earth

"[...] The sky is reflected in the friend's more charming gesture."

All tears and suffering are shed

"Melancholy throws off the anxious burden of tears, sweetie from the storm of suffering to rest, In love bosom [...]".

A friend drives away loneliness and if there wasn't one, one would dream of it. Love, not hate, is divine!

"We are dead groups - if we hate, gods - if we embrace ourselves lovingly!"

Regardless of whether they are educated or uneducated, everyone ends up going to death with their boyfriend in their arms

"Arm in arms [...] From Mongolians to Greek seers [...] we billow [...] Until there in the sea of ​​eternal splendor and dying submerge, measure and time-".

God is also bound to us in friendship, because he created like-minded people (friends) for us. But he himself is unique and infinite

"[...] therefore he created spirits, Sel'ge mirror of his bliss - the highest being found no equal [...]".

reception

The reprint of the poem in Adolf Brand's magazine Der Eigen caused a scandal in 1903 because it was interpreted as a homoerotic hymn in this context.

literature

  • Wolfgang Düsing: Up through the thousandfold steps. To Schiller's poem 'Friendship'. In: Karl Richter (ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 2 <. Enlightenment and Sturm und Drang> (= RUB. No. 7891). Reclam, Stuttgart 2010 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007891-4 , pp. 453-462.

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