With All My Thoughts (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Antschel
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Love or romance, Fantasy, Sun, Clouds, Soul, Eye, Sky
The Poem
“With All My Thoughts” is a poem of nineteen lines broken up into four stanzas. The first three stanzas are of four lines each, while the last stanza, breaking this pattern, is seven lines long. The poem does not follow a set rhyme scheme or syllabic pattern, either in the original German or in the English translation. Rather, the music of the poem arises from the sense it creates of being a transcription of the poet’s inner thoughts.
The poem’s title is incorporated into the opening line of the first stanza. Much of Paul Celan’s earlier poetry is...
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