Forest talk

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Forest Talk is a romantic poem by Joseph von Eichendorff that deals with the myth of the Loreley . Forest Talk was published for the first time in 1815 by the German publisher Johann Leonhard Schrag in Happening and Present .

text

Forest talk

It's getting late, it's getting cold,
what are you riding lonely through the forest?
The forest is long, you are alone,
you beautiful bride! I'll take you home

“Great is the deception and cunning of men,
My heart is broken for pain,
The French horn is wandering here and there,
O flee! You don't know who I am. ”

So richly adorned is horse and woman,
so beautiful the young body,
now I know you - God help me!
You are the witch Lorelei.

“You know me well - from a high stone
Look quietly at my castle deep into the Rhine.
It's getting late, it's getting cold, you
'll never come out of this forest! "

shape

The poem consists of 4 stanzas with 4 verses each in pair rhymes . The cadences are always male. The meter consists of strictly alternating four-letter verses.

reception

Alexander von Bormann expresses himself as follows: "Eichendorff's romance forest talk is his (very independent) contribution to the romantic Lorelei myth". Robert Schumann set this poem to music in 1840 and published it in his Liederkreis op. 39 (Schumann) .

literature

  • Alexander von Bormann: The shattered old. In: Wulf Segebrecht (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 3: Classical and Romantic. (= RUB . No. 7892). Reclam, Stuttgart 1984 [u. ö.], ISBN 978-3-15-007892-1 , pp. 307-319.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander von Bormann: The smashed old. In: Wulf Segebrecht (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 3: Classical and Romantic. (= RUB . No. 7892). Reclam, Stuttgart 1984 [u. ö.], ISBN 978-3-15-007892-1 , pp. 307-319.