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Heinrich Heine: Poems
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- GenresPoetry
114 pages, Paperback
First published September 30, 1993
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June 3, 2026
spent hours doing scansion (the concept of trochaic trimeter broke me), but love a bit of Heine! I get more and more disillusioned with romanticism with each day, but that’s probs just because I understand it better.
Okay so have more thoughts now. SO MANY LAYERS to it between framing devices that are acutely aware they are framing devices that act to mediate personal expression, it's all very good though. It is quite painfully obvious at times that Heine is attempting to break into canon and be popular – of course, it did work, but he seems almost bored at times, especially in later poems. Buch der Lieder is probably the best collection out of them all, his later poetry is a lot more political and has fewer framing devices that make the earlier poems so interesting because he stops concerning himself so much with a proto-functionalist breakdown of aesthetics and language.
I keep comparing him to Brentano, and it feels like Heine is Brentano's evil twin at times, despite decades separating them; at the very least, Heine's poetry, at least the early poetry, is concerned with staging a dialogue between literary conventions and whatever exists outside of that, and Heine himself does not seem to know what the right way forwards is, either.
Okay so have more thoughts now. SO MANY LAYERS to it between framing devices that are acutely aware they are framing devices that act to mediate personal expression, it's all very good though. It is quite painfully obvious at times that Heine is attempting to break into canon and be popular – of course, it did work, but he seems almost bored at times, especially in later poems. Buch der Lieder is probably the best collection out of them all, his later poetry is a lot more political and has fewer framing devices that make the earlier poems so interesting because he stops concerning himself so much with a proto-functionalist breakdown of aesthetics and language.
I keep comparing him to Brentano, and it feels like Heine is Brentano's evil twin at times, despite decades separating them; at the very least, Heine's poetry, at least the early poetry, is concerned with staging a dialogue between literary conventions and whatever exists outside of that, and Heine himself does not seem to know what the right way forwards is, either.
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