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    A Study Guide for Heinrich Heine 's "The Lorelei"
    A Study Guide for Heinrich Heine 's "The Lorelei"
    A Study Guide for Heinrich Heine 's "The Lorelei"
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    A Study Guide for Heinrich Heine 's "The Lorelei"

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    A Study Guide for Heinrich Heine 's "The Lorelei," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535838078
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      A Study Guide for Heinrich Heine 's "The Lorelei" - Gale

      11

      The Lorelei

      Heinrich Heine

      1823

      Introduction

      Alongside Goethe, Schiller, and Novlais, Heinrich Heine is considered to be among the greatest German romantic poets. Although his body of writing includes dramas, journalism, and entire verse novels, the rest of his work is overshadowed in popularity by a single lyric poem of twenty-four lines: The Lorelei. Especially in its musical setting by Friedrich Silcher, The Lorelei is considered a national treasure of German literature and culture. Even during the Nazi period, the poem could not be suppressed and was not burned like the rest of Heine's works because of his Jewish origin. Instead, The Lorelei was frequently republished by attributing it to an anonymous author. The poem was also embraced as a symbol of cultural identity by the German American community, as embodied in the Lorelei monument by Ernst Herter erected in the Bronx in 1899. Today, The Lorelei is the most frequently reprinted of Heine's poems, although often outside of its place in the Homecoming cycle. A good source for the poem is Hal Draper's 1982 translation of Heine's complete poetry, The Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine: A Modern English Version.

      The Lorelei is often assumed to reflect German folk tradition. In fact, it is based on a fairy tale invented by German novelist Clemens Brentano in 1801, taking its name from the Lorelei Rock, one of the most beautiful spots in the Rhone valley. The poem's story of a water nymph whose song causes sailors to crash into the Lorelei Rock incorporates many typical elements of Indo-European and Germanic tradition. Heine uses the subject matter of the poem to explore larger ideas about identity and poetry itself. Heine's work in turn has inspired dozens of other poets to write on the Lorelei theme, notably Guillaume Apollonaire and Sylvia Plath.

      Author Biography

      Heine was born into a Jewish family on December 13, 1797, in Du¨ sseldorf, Germany, a city on the lower Rhine River. The city was, at the time, occupied by

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