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- W2767643467 abstract "Trans|ator’s Preface Stephen Tapscott These poems are lyrics by the Austrian poet Georg Trakl [1887-1914] from his book Sebastian im Tmum (published posthumously by his friend Ludwig von Ficher in 1915). In English we tend to know Trakl as an ‘expressionist’ poet, and we tend to concentrate on the poems of his last period, when he was in the Austrian army and suffered a grievous case of shell-shock after the battle of Grodek, leading to his suicide. In these lyrics from shortly before those final poems, however, Trakl is trying on personae as a mode to deflect some of the grief of selfhood and of adult disillusionment. Paradoxically, I think, the process of ‘deflection' permits him a clearer, and more vivid, articulation of the anguished diminishments that are the great theme of the middle of his career. Writing through other perspectives permits to help him think through questions of traumatic loss, identity, and ‘private’ language; coincidentally, those are the questions that both Rilke and Wittgenstein praised as the thematics their friend Trakl helped them to approach. The figure of ‘E]is’ is Trakl’s reworking of the Scandinavian folk-hero Elis Froeborn, who drowned in a well on his wedding-day when he was 19; years later he was resuscitated, oddly uncorrupted, although his fiancee had aged through the intervening years. ‘Kaspar Hauser’ was a feral boy discovered in Nuremberg in 1828. He had apparently been held captive and out of human contact for years; although philosophers and psychologists and linguists took an interest in him as a ‘noble savage’ and tried to teach him language, his only comment about his past was the line quoted in the poem (Kaspar Hauser was assassinated, apparently by someone from his shadowy past, in 1833). ‘Sebastian’ is Tralll’s idealized figure who summarizes the prelingual idealism of chfldhood -- and who is therefore subject to the wrenching disorientation that the loss of that innocence involves. The diction of these personae poems is crisply factual. Although the arguments tend toward the surreal and the expressionist (rhetorical modes which pressure diction toward a kind of abstraction), Trakl flavors his German declarative-sentences with a surprisingly direct factual elegance. Some of the effects that English can accommodate through Latinate diction, Translation 2, 2007" @default.
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- W2767643467 title "Selected Poems from Sebastian Im Traum" @default.
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