Abstract:This paper seeks to indicate that the presence of the First World War in the poetry of Georg Trakl is inextricably entangled with his dark worldview, in which man is seen as an unavoidably misfortunate being. If on the one hand a romantic longing for purity, beauty, and goodness remains in this poetry, on the other hand such longing is continually refuted by menacing images of the evil inherent in the world -among which the images of the Great War impose themselves perhaps as the most terrifying. In order to s… Show more
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