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Meter and Time in Mörike's 'Um Mitternacht'

Dornbach, Márton

MLN, 2021-04, Vol.136 (3), p.639-659 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Título:
Meter and Time in Mörike's 'Um Mitternacht'
Autor: Dornbach, Márton
Assuntos: Aesthetics ; Allegory ; Ambiguity ; Archetypes (Psychology) ; Asymmetry ; Exegesis & hermeneutics ; German literature ; Literary criticism ; Literary devices ; Logic ; Morike, Eduard Friedrich (1804-1875) ; Narrative techniques ; Phenomenology ; Phonology ; Plot (Narrative) ; Poetry ; Symmetry ; Time
É parte de: MLN, 2021-04, Vol.136 (3), p.639-659
Descrição: Eduard Mörike's 1927 poem "Um Mitternacht" belongs to a distinct class of lyric poetry whose defining characteristic is intricate formal order achieved within a restricted textual space. The intense formal organization of the poem is immediately evident in the musical effects produced by its metrical and phonological patterns. Yet Mörike's poem does not only realize formal order through its aesthetic qualities. It also foregrounds the problematic of order through the concept of mid-point implicit in the title, the allegorization of symmetry in the parallel images of the scale and the yoke, and the precise parallelism between the two stanzas. Even in an initial approach to the poem, moreover, one is liable to make a third observation as well, which concerns the thematic focus of the poem: cryptic though it may be, "Um Mitternacht" is clearly a meditation on time.
Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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