„Gegen den Tod brauche ich keine Waffe, weil es keinen Tod gibt. Es gibt aber eines: Angst vor dem Tode.“– Hermann Hesses Haltung zum Tod anhand seiner Lyrik

• Authors: Paweł Moskała
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Although Hermann Hesse is perceived by his readers mainly as a prose writer, Paweł Moskała discloses Hesse’s other face, and draws his attention to Hesse’s poetry. In the article below Moskała reviews the array of the poet’s attitudes towards death.The author, analyzing the theme of death in Hesse’s poetry in various periods of his writing,concentrates on the evolution of poet’s attitudes, from existential-subjective to reflective. It should be underlined that the awareness of transience and theanticipation of death accompanied the poet during his whole life and in all his works, in which the desire to live interlaced with the humilitytowards death and the acceptance of volatility of life.

Keywords

PL

transience, the process of aging, neo-romanticism, the Great Mother archetype, art, Schopenhauer, epigonism, nature

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2012

online

2015-03-18

Contributors

author

Paweł Moskała