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20 - “Sturm”

from IV - Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

George C. Schoolfield
Affiliation:
Yale
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“Sturm”

Wenn die Wolken, von Stürmen geschlagen,

jagen:

Himmel von hundert Tagen

über einem einzigen Tag –:

Dann fühl ich dich, Hetman, von fern

(der du deine Kosaken gern

zu dem größesten Herrn

führen wolltest).

Deinen waagrechten Nacken

Fühl ich, Mazeppa.

Dann bin auch ich an das rasende Rennen

eines rauchenden Rückens gebunden;

alle Dinge sind mir verschwunden,

nur die Himmel kann ich erkennen:

Überdunkelt und überschienen

lieg ich flach unter ihnen,

wie Ebenen liegen;

meine Augen sind offen wie Teiche,

und in ihnen flüchtet das gleiche

Fliegen.

(SW 1:403–4)

[Gale

When the clouds, flogged by gales,

give chase:

skies of a hundred days

over a single day —:

Then I feel you, Hetman, from afar

[you who would gladly lead

your Cossacks

to the greatest lord].

I feel your level

neck, Mazeppa.

Then I too am bound to the raging run

of a steaming back;

all things have vanished for me,

I can recognize only the skies:

Over-darkened and over-shone

I lie flat beneath them,

as plains lie,

my eyes are open as ponds,

and in them the same flying

is fleeing.]

Had “Sturm” Existed before the first publication of Das Buch der Bilder, it could have been an appendage to “Karl der Zwölfte”; Ivan Mazeppa (1640–1709), the chieftain of the Zaporogean Cossacks, was Charles's ally at Poltava and his companion on the flight to Bender. August Stahl believes that the poem was written at Jonsered in the autumn of 1904, thus contemporary to another poem about wind, “Vorgefühl” (Presentiment), placed just before it in the expanded version of 1906.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2008

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