Evening Song (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Georg Trakl
- First Published: 1913
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Death or dying, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Naivete, Silence, Spring, Walking
The Poem
“Evening Song” is a short lyric poem written in a symmetrical structure that contributes to the poem’s cyclical effect. The poem is only fourteen lines long, the same length as a sonnet, although Georg Trakl’s poem does not function quite like a sonnet. Trakl creates his structure by repeating the pattern of a three-line stanza enclosed by two-line stanzas. In German, stanzas 3 and 4 contain the same number of syllables, which reinforces the poem’s symmetrical nature as well as acting as an echo. All of these elements lend a feeling of closure to the...
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