Rr Journal
RR Journal
Brittany Clevenger
C.Lewis
T Th
Heinrich Heine
There are many poets out there that I enjoy reading. Heinrich Heine would have to be one of them. All of him poems are considered among the best in German literature. Not only do I consider his writings remarkable, he is thought this way by many. You can tell by his writings that his career is in the later Romantic Movement and the era of the socially and politically conscious movement. His writings as well as his exile from Germany demonstrates his lifelong search for personal and national identity. His back ground is definitely noticeable through his writings. His education background included training in both Hebrew and Jesuit schools. They say that his double disappointment in life was the theme for many of his early writings. After reading the listed literature from Heinrich Heine, there are some I liked greatly and there are others not so much. The first piece of literature I read was In May the Magic Month of May. I loved this poem. What drew me to this poem was that in the very first line of literature you catch yourself automatically sketching up a landscape in your head. He makes you feel like you are dropped right into the beautiful month of May. It is simple yet sweet and just in the few lines he writes, you are able to see the love he proclaims and how beautiful he believes this love to be. When he says “ There, from my own heart, bursts forth my own love” I loved this segment. He is using his love as a symbol with the buds bursting open in the month of May. I thought this was a beautiful and simple poem and each time I read it I begin to smile. The next piece of literature I read was The Lorelei. This piece of literature gives you not only a sense of where this poem might take place (on water) but also gives you a sense of happiness and sadness. He speaks of how he is sad at heart and it haunts him and will not depart. I wasn’t quite sure what to take from this poem, to me it
Brittany Clevenger
C.Lewis
T Th
Heinrich Heine
There are many poets out there that I enjoy reading. Heinrich Heine would have to be one of them. All of him poems are considered among the best in German literature. Not only do I consider his writings remarkable, he is thought this way by many. You can tell by his writings that his career is in the later Romantic Movement and the era of the socially and politically conscious movement. His writings as well as his exile from Germany demonstrates his lifelong search for personal and national identity. His back ground is definitely noticeable through his writings. His education background included training in both Hebrew and Jesuit schools. They say that his double disappointment in life was the theme for many of his early writings. After reading the listed literature from Heinrich Heine, there are some I liked greatly and there are others not so much. The first piece of literature I read was In May the Magic Month of May. I loved this poem. What drew me to this poem was that in the very first line of literature you catch yourself automatically sketching up a landscape in your head. He makes you feel like you are dropped right into the beautiful month of May. It is simple yet sweet and just in the few lines he writes, you are able to see the love he proclaims and how beautiful he believes this love to be. When he says “ There, from my own heart, bursts forth my own love” I loved this segment. He is using his love as a symbol with the buds bursting open in the month of May. I thought this was a beautiful and simple poem and each time I read it I begin to smile. The next piece of literature I read was The Lorelei. This piece of literature gives you not only a sense of where this poem might take place (on water) but also gives you a sense of happiness and sadness. He speaks of how he is sad at heart and it haunts him and will not depart. I wasn’t quite sure what to take from this poem, to me it