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The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss - 7. Give me your hand

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Gedichte aus „Bleib jung meine Seele“

 

I.

Nun gib mir deine Hand

Wir tragen unsre Liebe

Durch das herbstliche Land.

Unsre Liebe ist jung und frühlingsfein

Und das Land erglüht in rotestem Rot –

Denn jung will selbst der Herbst für unsre Liebe sein.

Sieh! wir der rote Rausch die Wälder durchbraust!

Denkst du, der Bäume adern wissen auch

Wie rauschrot das Blut die Glieder durchsaust?

Alles ist flammend geworden für dich und mich!

Rauschrot das Land – rauschrot das Leben –

Oh du

Rauschrot

Für mich – um dich

Der Tod.

 

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The Two “Stay Young at Heart, my Psyche” Poems

 

I.

Now give to me your hand

And we’ll usher our loving

Through an autumnal land.

For our love is youthful and fine as spring

And makes the ground blush in its reddest red –

Though Fall wanes, it waxes youthful for our love.

See how crimson ecstasy bursts through the woods!

Think how the veins of the trees also feel

The red-hot blood coursing through every limb.

For all’s become flaming passion for you and me.

Red-hot the countryside – red-hot life –

Oh, you

Red-hot

For me – and Death

Round us.

 

 

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On 2/25/2024 at 8:23 AM, Parker Owens said:

What a magnificent poem. The first reading left me breathless; the second saw me still searching for words to describe my reaction. The use of season and color to describe the immensity of emotion is intense and effective. 

Thank you, Parker. This poem must have exerted a lot of influence on later Expressionist poets. I say that because the theme of a landscape beating with the red-blooded passions of their human observers comes back time and time again. In a way, Schwabe's poem is similar to those from the Romantic Era, but by her insistence on 'raw emotions', she is adding this former trope of a poetic stroll in nature to the new toolbox of modern poets.

At least that's what I think :)    

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On 2/25/2024 at 9:41 AM, ReaderPaul said:

What @Parker Owens said.

The emotion in this is beautiful and expressed via autumn colors and the bursts of changes taking place in the foliage and countryside.  The beauty of that time of year, combined with love is expressed clearly and artistically. 

Thank you, ReaderPaul. The back and forth of autumn and spring in the poem is one of the most interesting aspects of it, in my opinion. Toni Schwabe seems to be doing it in almost a regular rise and fall, as if creating a current of excitement for the reader in the structure of the poem itself. It's very skillfully done

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