This poem makes us feel suddenly immersed in a popular concept. According to this popular concept, the earth is a fleeting thing in the sense of worldly things; On the contrary, the soul is considered eternal and extraordinary. Since Plato's theory, soul has been classified as extrasensory field. And if the soul appears in the perceptual field, it is just degenerating into it.
Here, "on the earth" is out of tune with the soul. The soul does not belong to the earth. Soul is "a friend" here. The body is the cage of the soul, or worse. Therefore, in addition to leaving the perceptual field as soon as possible, the soul seems to have no other way out; According to Plato's way, the perceptual field is not a real existence, but a corrupt existence.
But how strange!
This poem is actually from a poem called Spring of the Soul (page 149- 150) [the page number is Poetry published by Otto Miller Publishing House (Salzburg). The sixth edition of 1948 is used here. By his friend Carl? The first edition of The Complete Collection of Poetry edited by Louke was published in 19 17 in Kurt Wolff Publishing House (Leipzig).
The new edition (with materials of Peace and Memory) was edited by K. Orwitz, and 1946 was published in Egypt Press (Zurich). -the original note]. This poem makes no mention of the extraordinary home of immortal souls. We should think carefully. We'd better pay attention to the poet's language. Soul: "stranger".
In other poems, the tracker often likes to use other expressions, such as "There will be a dead man" (page 55), "Dark man" (page 78, 170, 177, 195) and "Lonely man" (page 78) 17 1 page), "human" (1 14 page), "old" (138 page), "dead" (17 1 page).
No matter how different they are in content, these expressions have different meanings. "Lonely people" and "strangers" can refer to some individual things, which are "lonely" in any case and "foreign land" occasionally from a special and limited perspective. This kind of "stranger" can be classified as an ordinary stranger. In this way, the soul may be just one of many situations of strangers.
But what is a "foreign land"? People usually understand a foreign land as something unfamiliar, something uninteresting, and something more annoying and disturbing. However, the so-called "fremd", that is, "fram" in old German, basically means: go somewhere else, on the way ... contrary to what you kept before. Strangers roam first.
But it's not aimless and rambling. A stranger is looking for a place where he can continue to wander. The "stranger" hardly knows. It heard the call and was on its way home.
The poet named the soul "a stranger on earth". The place where the soul has wandered so far has failed to reach is precisely the earth. The soul first seeks the earth, but does not avoid it.
Looking for the earth while roaming, let it build and live poetically on the earth, so as to save the earth for the earth-this is the realization of the essence of the soul. Therefore, the soul is not the first soul, and it belongs to the earth for whatever reason. On the contrary, this poem tells the essence of the so-called "soul".
This poem does not contain any statement about this soul that is already known in essence, as if it is just a supplement to make sure that the soul has met something alien and therefore strange, that is, it can find neither shelter nor welcome words on earth. On the contrary, according to its basic characteristics, the soul is a "stranger on earth".
So it is always on the road, following its own essential form in roaming. At this time, there is a problem imposed on us, that is: where is the pace of "strangers" in the above sense? In the third part of this poem, a paragraph "Sebastian is in my dream" (page 107) gives the answer:
Oh, what a quiet March, along the blue river.
Thinking of the forgotten, now in the green bushes.
The thrush asked the stranger to decline.
The soul is called to decline. I see! The soul will end its roaming in the world and abandon the earth. Although the poem above doesn't say that, it says "decline". That's true. However, the so-called decline here is neither a disaster nor a simple disappearance in decay. Along the blue river,
It declined in calm and silence.
-"Beautiful Autumn Day" (page 34)
In what kind of peace? In the silence of death. But what kind of victim is that? What kind of silence is it?
Soul, stranger on earth.
The poem containing this sentence continues:
..... full of elves, blue light hazy.
Covered in a vast jungle ...
The sun has been exposed before. The stranger stepped into the gloom. "Hazy" first means darkening. Blue light is hazy. Is the blue light on sunny days often darker? Is it because of the night arrival that the blue light disappears in the evening? But "hazy" is not only the decline of a day, but also the light of a day falling into darkness.
Fundamentally speaking, obscurity does not necessarily mean decline. The morning light is hazy A day rises with the coming of the morning. Hazy is also rising. The blue light is hazy and shrouded in the thorny "boundless" jungle. The blue light at night rises in the evening.
Extended data
Georg Trakl was born in Salzburg on 1887. His father is a hardware dealer. 1908 studied pharmacy in Vienna, 19 10 worked as a pharmacist after graduation. After the outbreak of World War I, he was recruited to join the Austrian army and worked as a health worker at the front, but it was a cruel war.
character introduction
family background
Georg Tracker was born in Salzburg, Austria, which is also the hometown of Mozart. Trakel has maintained an abnormal love relationship with his sister Gretel since she was a teenager. As an empathy for her cold mother's love, her mother's only passionate hobby is being locked up in a small room full of antiques all day.
In contrast, my honest father, a diligent hardware dealer, gave the tracker's brothers and sisters the warmest care. In this way, the love for my father, the hatred for my mother (perhaps a kind of love) and the awareness of my sister's sin are intertwined into the tracker's dark and lifelong lingering emotions.
Adolescent drug abuse
Trakel began to write poems in middle school. At that time, he read the poems of Baudelaire and Rambo, and deeply realized their preference for the dead, rotting and corpse. Of course, what is "interesting" for the French is "very serious" for Tracker. He is also familiar with the piano, and likes Liszt's grandeur and Chopin's gentleness, which are reflected in his later poems, which are naturally full of musical rhythm and extraordinarily beautiful.
/kloc-started taking drugs at the age of 0/8. It is said that there are three purposes: to experience the spiritual realm of ecstasy; Forget the pain; And, consciously self-destruction. Undoubtedly, he did pay enough for it, failing many courses and being forced to drop out of school; Finally, he also fell here.
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