Ewigen Melodien (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Heyen
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Music or musicians, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, War, Death or dying, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish
The Poem
“Ewigen Melodien” is a free-verse lyric poem of fifteen lines, organized in five stanzas of three lines each. The title is German and means “Everything Melody.” According to William Heyen, he took the title from a letter of the British Victorian era philosopher and man of letters Thomas Carlyle, who, responding to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature (1836), wrote to the American philosopher: “You have written the ewigen melodien.” The title also clearly suggests that the poem itself is a kind of song.
The poem is meant to embody the combined voice...
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