Georg Trakl. (Salzburg) – (Kraków) Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. Update this biography». · I have for some time been in possession of a ragged copy of Twenty Poems of George Trakl, translated by James Wright Robert Bly, published by The Sixties Press in I bought the book around when, at 17, I was discovering poetry, though discovering isn't quite right as I was very ill and close to dying from anorexia, and poignant as it may seem, poetry was showing me a Author: Stephen Kuusisto. It is a light, that the wind has extinguished. It is a pub on the heath, that a drunk departs in the afternoon. It is a vineyard, charred and black with holes full of spiders. It is a space, that they have white-limed with milk. Read Poem. 5.
This week's poem is John Greening's translation of "On the Eastern Front" by Georg Trakl. The original poem "Im Osten" (which follows the English here) was probably written in the aftermath. Georg Trakl is an important lyric poet in German literature of the early 20th century. Critics associate his work with various modern artistic movements, and he is viewed as one of the principal writers to set the dark, introspective tone that later influenced the course of German expressionism. Affinities with imagism have also been noted in Trakl's strikingly visual style. The upbringing of Georg and his younger sister Grete, with whom he developed an intimate relationship, was left to a young Alsatian woman. The governess, Marie Boring, acquainted the Trakl children with French language and literature and introduced Georg to the poetry of Rimbaud, Verlaine and Baudelaire.
The occasional grace of Trakl's poetry, seen in poems like Helian ('In the lonely hours of the mind/ It is lovely to walk in the sun/ Along the yellow walls of summer') provide hard-earned moments of solace and contentment amidst the terror of poems like 'Grodek', giving a sense of balance to his vision. In the pond’s mirror-glass. Golden butterflies are in rapture, Quietly a dual-backed creature. Stirs in the velvety grass. The difficulties in Trakl extend beyond the rules, with his expressionist sense of color and the way he expressed feeling through describing landscape. Georg Trakl Biography Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. Life and Work Trakl was born and lived the first 18 years of his life in Salzburg, Austria. His father, Tobias Trakl (11 June , Ödenburg/Sopron – ), was a dealer of hardware from Hungary, while his mother, Maria.
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