Some of course
Some, of course , are a poem by Hugo von Hofmannsthal from 1896.
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The poem begins with the following verses:
Some, of course, have to die below,
where the heavy oars of the ships touch,
others live above by the rudder , they
know bird flight and the lands of the stars.
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The Germanist Albert von Schirnding writes in his commentary on this poem:
The poem comes, therefore, like a magnificent Venetian ship. It slowly moves, adorned with exquisite words and precious pictures, through the gently moving element of language.
When Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote this poem, he was just twenty years old and his hometown Vienna was the so-called “ center of the European value vacuum ”.
With the term “ship” Hugo von Hofmannsthal probably wanted to recall the galleys of the past in order to represent a world in which the “below” and “above” are strictly separated from each other. The officers sat upstairs, the slaves rowed below. At the same time, the ships are a metaphor for the ship of state .
literature
- Rudolf Riedler (ed.): “To whom time is like eternity. Poets, interpreters, interpretations ”. Munich / Zurich: Piper, 1987. ISBN 3-492-10701-X
- Grimm, Reinhold: “Anxious message. To understand Hofmannsthal's 'Some of course ...' "In: Poems and Interpretations. Volume 5. From Naturalism to the Mid-Century, ed. v. Harald Hartung, Stuttgart: Reclam, 1983, pp. 34-42.
Individual evidence
- ↑ in Rudolf Riedler: "To whom time is like eternity"
- ^ Hermann Broch, Hofmannsthal und seine Zeit , Vienna 1950
