what if I don't understand the poem?
Hello, I'm writing a poem analysis for my advanced German class tomorrow. I know exactly how to interpret a poem, but I usually have trouble understanding the content, which ruins my entire grade. How should I proceed in the exam if I don't understand the content of the poem?
Remember that the individual lines of the poem are nothing but something that I express. I mean, you just have to describe what the lyrical I’m doing. For example, it represents a situation. It’s someone who blames me or something, and then you’re on the right track. Do not try to find any sense too quickly in a poem that does not result from the signals of the text. This usually leads to running on a wrong track and making the poem accuse. In doing so, one has made the mistake of not consistently looking again and again whether one’s own ideas are also compatible with the poem. I’ll see if I can find another example. I’ve been busy with the problem. In any case, I wish you success tomorrow
I’ve found a page of the people who say “crack” every poem. They give tips:
https://fast-überblick.de/wie-man-ein-gedicht-safe-vermitted
hallo, could they possibly also refer to my last question and help me bite, I don’t know if I interpreted it correctly
Thank you really! 🙂 but partly the German is so outdated there that I don’t even understand what the lyrical I does there. Do you understand what I mean?
maybe it helps you to write the poem in normal german
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Yeah, I can understand you very well. These are two different problems. I’d talk to the teacher about it. It actually has the task to fix these obstacles for a proper understanding. A dictionary can of course also be helpful. But an understanding faculty will always take into account that young people from today can no longer understand the German language from the newspaper around 1800. The only thing that comforts one is that Goethe and Schiller would not understand us today. Mom could make a poem for fun.
I think that’s a good tip. : How did it go with your poem analysis?
I have the same problem haha and I also have to write a poem interpretation on 29.2; you cannot understand everything but I would advise you anyway, as well as to let your thoughts go free to the poem
can you look at my last question, there has been something dense but I don’t know if it’s true haha
You did this quite well, but I would interpret it more with the joint ride. You can look at the following page.
https://fast-überblicken.de/eichendorff-einem-paten-zu-seinem-ersten-nat
Thank you! 😀