Longing (Eichendorff)

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Joseph von Eichendorff

Sehnsucht is a poem by Joseph von Eichendorff . It was published in 1834 in the novel “ Poets and their journeymen ” .

structure

The poem consists of three stanzas of eight verses each with cross rhymes of the form ababcdcd. The meter represents a three-part dactyl with a prelude. The cadences change regularly between female and male. Eichendorff uses polysyllabic lowering .

text

Edition from 1864
Edition from 1864

The spelling follows the quoted text edition, p. 334, 21. Zvo

Nostalgia.

The stars seemed so golden
At the window I stood lonely
And heard from a long way off
A post horn in the quiet land.
The heart burned out of my body
I secretly thought:
Oh who could travel with you
In the glorious summer night!
Two young journeymen left
Past the mountain slope
I heard them sing while walking
Along the quiet area:
From dizzying rock crevices
Where the woods rustle so softly
From sources that from the clefts
Rush into the forest night.
They sang of marble pictures
Of gardens that rise above the rock
Run wild in dusky arbors,
Palaces in the moonlight,
Where the girls listen at the window
When the loud sound awakens
And the fountains rustle sleepily
In the glorious summer night. -

interpretation

  • In his very detailed discussion, Seidlin goes into the meter in several places. Furthermore, the moderate change in lighting of the scenery - from gloomy forest night to dusky arbors to full moonlight is discussed. The poem falls into three parts - an Es poem (verse 1), an I poem (verses 2 to 8) and a she poem (verses 9 to 24).
  • Adorno places longing at the center of his Eichendorff interpretation: "This poem, immortal like only one made by a human hand, hardly contains a feature that cannot be reckoned with what is derived and secondary, but each of these features changes in character through contact with the next . [...] Longing flows into itself as its own goal, just as, in its infinity, the transcendence over everything determined, the longing experiences their own condition; just as love is always as much for love as it is for the beloved. "
  • Frühwald draws a parallel to Goethe's Do you know the land where the lemons bloom . In addition, the praise for Italy, the home of art, is reminiscent of the pouring out of the heart . Fiametta, the singer of the text quoted above, sings the song of poetry in a nightingale-colored voice. The song arises in a fulfilled moment from the view of memory and the present. The song is the movement of the heart itself. Those who sing such a song, say all of Eichendorff's art.
  • Freund: The dream of the metaphysical journey into the golden realm of the stars is over. The poetic person stands lonely at the window at home, "unable to leave his narrowness".

literature

  • Helmut Motekat: Maturity and aftertaste of romantic world abundance. Reflections on Joseph von Eichendorff's poem 'Sehnsucht'. Pp. 97–103 in: Blätter für Deutschlehrer 4 (1956/57)
  • Oskar Seidlin : Joseph von Eichendorff. Nostalgia. P. 102–108 in: Karl Hotz (ed.): Poems from seven centuries. Interpretations. 311 pages. CC Buchner, Bamberg 1990 (2nd edition). Taken from: Oskar Seidlin: Experiments on Eichendorff . S. 54. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985
  • Theodor W. Adorno : In memory of Eichendorff . Lecture 1957. In: Th. W. Adorno: Notes on Literature I. Suhrkamp, ​​BS 47, Frankfurt am Main 1958, new edition 1969, pp. 105–145.
  • Wolfgang Frühwald : Poetry and the poetic person. To Eichendorff's poem 'Sehnsucht'. S. 380–393 in: Wulf Segebrecht (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Volume 3. Classic and Romantic. Reclam UB 7892, Stuttgart 1984 (1994 edition). 464 pages, ISBN 3-15-007892-X
  • Winfried Freund : German poetry. Interpretations from the baroque to the present. 224 pages. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2649-X
  • Horst Joachim Frank: Handbook of the German strophic forms . Francke Tübingen 1993 (2nd edition). 885 pages. ISBN 3-7720-2221-9

Quoted text edition

  • Poets and their journeymen. Novella. Pp. 105–353 in Brigitte Schillbach (ed.), Hartwig Schultz (ed.): Poets and their journeymen. Stories II. In Wolfgang Frühwald (Ed.), Brigitte Schillbach (Ed.), Hartwig Schultz (Ed.): Joseph von Eichendorff. Works in five volumes. Volume 3. 904 pages. Linen. Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993 (1st edition), ISBN 3-618-60130-1

Web links

Wikisource: Sehnsucht  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schillbach and Schultz, p. 334, 21. Zvo
  2. ^ Frank, p. 573
  3. ^ Frank, p. 577, 10th Zvu
  4. ↑ Seidlin, p. 104, 9th Zvu; P. 107, 18.Zvo to p. 108 below
  5. ↑ Seidlin, p. 105 below
  6. ↑ Seidlin, p. 106 below
  7. ↑ Adorno, p. 131; 132 f.
  8. ↑ Freund, pp. 74-81
  9. ^ The first edition was published by Hanser in Munich.