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In the poem ‘Das Göttliche’ (The Divine), Goethe rejects the pathetic fallacy which attributes our emotions to nature: ‘For nature is unfeeling.’ Most often, Goethe imagines nature as above all dynamic—constantly in motion, both creative and destructive.
How sweetly Nature Brightens round me! How the sun’s shining! How the fields gleam! Blossoms are bursting From every leaf, Thousands of voices From bushes beneath, And joy and bliss From every eye. O Earth, O Sun! O Joy, O Delight. O Love, O Love! So golden fair, Like morning clouds On the hillside there!
Torn between his support of democracy and his unwillingness to part with his bourgeois lifestyle, Goethe wrote Hermann and Dorothea (1797), an epic poem that examines the contrast between chaos and the complacent peace that accompanies a decadent lifestyle.
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Even what is most unnatural is Nature; even the coarsest Philistinism has something of her genius. Who does not see her everywhere, sees her nowhere aright. She loves herself, and clings eternally to herself with eyes and hearts innumerable. She has divided herself that she may be her own delight.
Apr 15, 2010 · Johann Wolfgang Goethe: (translated from the German by Alan N. Shapiro) Nature! We are surrounded by and entangled in it, incapable of escaping from it, and incapable of penetrating deeper inside it. Without being asked and without warning, it draws us into the vortex of its dance and sweeps us away, until we are exhausted and drop from its arms.
Abstract. WE reproduce below the translation of Goethe's reflections on Nature by T. H. Huxley, which was published as an introductory article to the first number of NATURE, dated Nov. 4,...
Goethe's multifaceted legacy encompasses literature, science, and cultural leadership, solidifying his lasting impact on Western intellectual history. bio. 0 / 83. Discover the poetic brilliance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with a curated collection of his timeless poems translated to English.
