Week 2 - Stages By Herman Hesse - a Second Translation Revised
...As ev’ry flower wilts and ev’ry youngster 11
Must age, so manifests each stage of living, 11
All wisdom blossoms too and ev’ry virtue 11
Enjoys its time, and cannot last forever. 11
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homelike, journey, life, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Week 2 - Stages By Herman Hesse - First Translation
...As every blossom wilts and every youth
Yields to old age so manifests every stage of life,
All wisdom and every virtue
Has its time, and cannot last forever.
At every call of life, the heart,
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Categories:
homelike, journey, leaving, life,
Form: Free verse
Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'
...Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2
This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s...
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Categories:
homelike, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Didactic