Ein Gleiches von J.W. Goethe

1. Ein Gleiches von J.W. Goethe

2. EIN GLEICHES (Wandrers Nachtlied II) Über allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh, In allen Wipfeln Spürest du Kaum einen Hauch; Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde. Warte nur, balde Ruhest du auch. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (6.9.1780) SAMENESS (Wandrers Nachtlied II) Over all hilltops It’s peace in all the treetops you feel barely a breeze; The birds in the forest have stopped their song Just wait, soon you too will rest.

3. Biography of J.W. Goethe

4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosopher and he is considered one of the greatest contributors of the German Romantic period.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt, Germany; his father was Johann Caspar Goethe and lived with his family in a large house in Frankfurt and his mother was Katharina ElisabethThe father and private tutors gave Goethe lessons in the common subjects of their time, especially languages (Latin, Greek, French, Italian and English). He also received lessons in dancing, riding and fencing. His father was determined that his children should have all those advantages that he had not.His great passion was drawing and he quickly became interested in literature and theatre.

5. Goethe studied law in Leipzig, but he detested learning judicial rules by heart, preferring instead to attend the poetry lessons. There Goethe fell in love with Käthchen Schönkopf and wrote cheerful verses about her in the Rococo genre. He anonymously released his first collection of poems, Annette.In Frankfurt, Goethe became severely ill. During the year and a half that followed the relationship with his father worsened. During convalescence, Goethe was nursed by his mother and sister. Bored in bed, he wrote an impudent crime comedy.

6. In 1775, Goethe was invited, on the strength of his fame as the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, to the court of Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, so Goethe went to live in Weimar, where he remained for the rest of his life and where, over the course of many years, he held a succession of offices, becoming the Duke's chief adviser.In 1776, Goethe formed a close relationship to Charlotte von Stein, an older, married woman. The intimate bond with Frau von Stein lasted for ten years, after which Goethe left for Italy.

7. Goethe's journey to the Italian peninsula was of great significance in his aesthetical and philosophical development. His father had made a similar journey during his own youth, and his example was a major motivating factor for Goethe to make the trip. In 1788 ha came back to Weimar, there he lived with his mistress Christiane Vulpis.After the death of his mistress he loved Urlike von Levetzow.He died in Weimar in 1832, maybe for an heart attack.

8. The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were his tragedies Götz von Berlinchinger (1773), which was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel The sorrows of young Werther. During the years at Weimar before he met Schiller he began Wilhelm Meister's apprendiceship wrote the dramas Iphigenie of Tauris (Iphigenia in Torquato Tasso Tauris), Egmont, and the fable Reineke Fuchs .

9. In the last period, between Schiller's death, in 1805, and his own, appeared Faust Part One, Elective Affinities , the West-Eastern Divan and his autobiographical. Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und WahrheitFaust Part Two, was only finished in the year of his death,and was published leater. He wrote several works on plant morphology and colour theory.Goethe also had the largest private collection of minerals in all of Europe.

10. Content of the poem

11. The main theme is death, and the sense of peace that Goethe expresses in the first lines is an anticipation to this theme, described at the end. This description of nature takes place in several stages: - In the first line there is the reference to the distance and the vastness of the sky. - He included the animal world, in the sixth line, describing the tranquillity of the little birds. Wherever there is the central role of the silence.

12. Interpretation

13. He described the theme of death as a kind of redemption not as something negative. In the sixth line, the description of the tranquillity of the birds can be considered as an harbinger of the death. The enjambment lead to greater unity and these emphasize the unityand the harmony that should be achieved.

14. Shape analysis and Rhetorical figures

15. -The poem is a stanza of eight lines. -There is a clear rhyme scheme (ABAB CDDC). -In the first four lines there is an alternating rhythm. -From the fifth line to the end predominate free rhythm.

16. -Enjambment ( Everywhere except in the sixth line) -Inversion ( line 1-2 and 3-4 “Over all hilltops it’s peace” ) -Speeches referring to the reader (fourth, seventh and eighth line) -Euphemism ( Just wait, soon / you too will rest)

17. Comenius Project 2011/2012 Produced by Letizia Santin Sara Pivetta Anna Ottone 4C Scientific High school “Le Filandiere” San Vito al Tagliamento