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THE LORELEI

Heinrich Hein. THE LORELEI.

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THE LORELEI

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  1. Heinrich Hein THE LORELEI

  2. I wish I knew the meaning,A sadness has fallen on me. The ghost of an ancient legend That will not let me be. The air is cool in the twilight And gently flows the Rhine; A mountain peak in the setting sun Catches the faltering shine.The highest peak still gleaming Reveals enthroned in the air, A Siren lost in her dreaming Combing her golden hair. With golden combs she caresses Her hair as she sings her song;  Echoing through the gloaming Filled with a magic so strong.  The boatman has heard, it has bound him In throes of desire and love. He's blind to the reefs that surround him, He sees but the Maiden above. And now the wild waters awakenThen boat and the boatman are gone. And this is what with her singing,The Lorelei has done.

  3. The theme of this poem is destruction of beauty, due to the Lorelei. The Lorelei uses the sea, which is supposed to be beautiful and part of nature, and turns it into a monstrous killer. She combines her beauty and the sea to lure sailors into crashing into the rocks.

  4. . • Heinrich Heine was one of the most influential German poets of the 19th century. He is best know outside German for his lyric poetry. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities. • Girl with golden hair and a golden voice sits on top of the rock and sings causing old sailors of Germany to crash into the rocks, making this rock a symbol for a place in Germany and for heinrich’s poem

  5. Dialogue on the Paderborn Heath • GeoffryRudel and Melisanda of Tripoll • Goethe's Monument at Frankfort-On The-Main, 1821. • Halle • In Port • Princess Ilse • The Hostile Brothers • The Lorelei

  6. Is there something that you want? Is something luring it to you? Tell Andrew,Jack, and Abby your answers after you write them on your own paper.

  7. Romantic Elements

  8. Rhyme Scheme of The Lorelei • Abab • Cdcd • Efef • Ghgh • Ijij • Klkl

  9. I don’t really have a strong opinion of this poem. I don’t not like it but I don’t really say “wow! I love this poem”! or “I hate this poem”! But that is MY opinion!

  10. Hidden Literary devices • Anastophie • Cool is the air in the twilight • End rhyme in lines in stanzas • Lines 1 and 3: • Lines 2 and 4

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