comments on the poem "Autumn of the Lonely" by Georg Trakl Formal
aspects:
"The Autumn of the Lonely" is a for Trakl typical poem. In his work outweigh the moods and colors of autumn, dark images of the evening and at night, dying, death and decay.
Georg Trakl poem is divided into three stanzas. The verses are rhymed, and consist of six lines of verse. The rhyme scheme is the cross-rhyme, as always the last words rhyme every other line. ("Wealth - days - cover - Legends - silence - Questions")
The meter is a 5-hebig iambic with female-sounding cadences. The rhythm is very slowly and regularly, only in the fifth row of the third stanza, the rhythm is broken, there meet three beats. ("It rustles the tube, obtained a bone horror")
enjambment can be found respectively in the fifth row of the first and second verse and the third line of verse in the third stanza.
more formal elements are alliteration ("full of fruit and richness," "The Flight of Birds," "The cloud moves übern pond-mirror", "There lies the country's peaceful gesture," murmurs the tube ") and assonance (" from old legends, "" the gentle silence "," out of the blue eyes ").
The poem is darker with each verse, reflecting the frequent use of dark vowels is due. (2nd line: "faded luster of fine summer days," 17th line: "It rustles the pipe; obtained a bone horror")
Trakl uses a lot of attributive adjectives used. ("Faded splendor of beautiful summer days") Use the color adjectives, it reinforces the mood. The dominant colors are red, blue and black, and they are getting darker towards the end. ("In the red forest", "blue wing of the evening", "black earth"). Blue stands for peace ("There lies the country's peaceful gesture."), Red for love ("And Angels connect quietly out of the blue eyes of lovers who suffer from mild. ") and black for death. The language is very pictorial.
Georg Trakl poem is divided into three stanzas. The verses are rhymed, and consist of six lines of verse. The rhyme scheme is the cross-rhyme, as always the last words rhyme every other line. ("Wealth - days - cover - Legends - silence - Questions")
The meter is a 5-hebig iambic with female-sounding cadences. The rhythm is very slowly and regularly, only in the fifth row of the third stanza, the rhythm is broken, there meet three beats. ("It rustles the tube, obtained a bone horror")
enjambment can be found respectively in the fifth row of the first and second verse and the third line of verse in the third stanza.
more formal elements are alliteration ("full of fruit and richness," "The Flight of Birds," "The cloud moves übern pond-mirror", "There lies the country's peaceful gesture," murmurs the tube ") and assonance (" from old legends, "" the gentle silence "," out of the blue eyes ").
The poem is darker with each verse, reflecting the frequent use of dark vowels is due. (2nd line: "faded luster of fine summer days," 17th line: "It rustles the pipe; obtained a bone horror")
Trakl uses a lot of attributive adjectives used. ("Faded splendor of beautiful summer days") Use the color adjectives, it reinforces the mood. The dominant colors are red, blue and black, and they are getting darker towards the end. ("In the red forest", "blue wing of the evening", "black earth"). Blue stands for peace ("There lies the country's peaceful gesture."), Red for love ("And Angels connect quietly out of the blue eyes of lovers who suffer from mild. ") and black for death. The language is very pictorial.
moods and linguistic resources:
Autumn has taken possession of the landscape and the winter is not far away. This mood is of linguistic images ("The Dark Autumn") and metaphors ("full of fruit and fullness") are supported. The "faded luster of fine summer days," foreshadows the falling autumn leaves.
One is reminded of the past ("The flight of birds sounds from old legends.") While the "bare willow" herald of the coming winter. The mild
is silence "filled with dark quiet answer questions." The "cross in the desolate hills" is probably the answer to the question of what comes after death.
The quiet rhythm is supported by various images. ("It rests of the country's peaceful gesture," "In cool rooms around a still modest)
pulls up the night (" Stars in the nest soon weary brow ") and the mood is gloomy. ("Obtained a bone horror")
The title ("Autumn of the Lonely") contains two important Motifs: the fall and the solitude.
Another motif is the cross. ("And here and there a cross on a barren hill") The cross stands as an ambiguous symbol of a hand for the death but also for the redemption. The death also occurs as a separate subject. ("Dry straw," from the bare willows ")
Autumn of the Lonely very sad and thoughtful. The perceived loneliness is contrasted with the lesser sufferings of lovers. - However, this is also attributed in spite of the heavenly angels accompanied by an open joy. The love helping people but to accept their fate. ("And angels step quietly out of the blue eyes of lovers who suffer from mild ")
One is reminded of the past ("The flight of birds sounds from old legends.") While the "bare willow" herald of the coming winter. The mild
is silence "filled with dark quiet answer questions." The "cross in the desolate hills" is probably the answer to the question of what comes after death.
The quiet rhythm is supported by various images. ("It rests of the country's peaceful gesture," "In cool rooms around a still modest)
pulls up the night (" Stars in the nest soon weary brow ") and the mood is gloomy. ("Obtained a bone horror")
The title ("Autumn of the Lonely") contains two important Motifs: the fall and the solitude.
Another motif is the cross. ("And here and there a cross on a barren hill") The cross stands as an ambiguous symbol of a hand for the death but also for the redemption. The death also occurs as a separate subject. ("Dry straw," from the bare willows ")
Autumn of the Lonely very sad and thoughtful. The perceived loneliness is contrasted with the lesser sufferings of lovers. - However, this is also attributed in spite of the heavenly angels accompanied by an open joy. The love helping people but to accept their fate. ("And angels step quietly out of the blue eyes of lovers who suffer from mild ")