>finally learn enough German to read poetry decently >read Rilke's poetry in side-by-side translation to see what I was missing >the German is like reading the best of Shakespeare >it's like music >the English is like a retarded person repeating a story he was just told
Ein Gott vermags. Wie aber, sag mir, soll Mann ihm folgen durch die schmale Leier? Sinn ist Zwiespalts. An der Kreuzung zweier Herzwege steht kein Tempel für Apoll.
Gods are able. Tell how a man, though, could possibly thread the lyre's narrow modes? Vacillating at the heart's dark crossroads, he beholds no temple of Apollo.
Jayden Lopez
>ever reading poetry in translation It's like listening to an acoustic cover of a Kraftwerk tune
Easton Richardson
Spanish is superior Lmao
Mason Morales
Thanks for reminding me to read Rilek's collected poems. Very nice.
Luis Hughes
Das Stunden-Buch is hard to top. I struggle to explain just how magnificent it is to non German speakers. They pick up a translation and they are like: "yea, its pretty good". If they could only experience it in German. THEY WOULD KNOW.
Aaron Davis
>anglo translation ishygddt, english is too poor to proper translate poetry
Jeremiah Cruz
Can you graduate from an American university being monolingual?
Kevin Turner
I know people getting PhDs in German Literature at Yale who have a lousy grasp of German after 7 years studying it nigga
Ryder Morgan
Any respectable one will have some sort of foreign language requirement but it's just one or two years and you can barely scrape by in your classes and still satisfy it, so yes.
Oliver James
>need to read literature >need to read philosophy >need to know about art history >need to know about world history >need to know especially about American history and politics >need to know the basics of higher level mathematics >need to know basics of natural sciences >need to know several languages so I can read poetry w/out translation >spend all day on internet
Hudson Howard
Should I learn German solely in order to read the German classics? It's a language I like the sound of.
Brandon Martin
Please have a look at the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble.
Wyatt White
German here. Our manga translations are pretty good. You should do it.
Zachary Barnes
I am German native and Rilke is honestly one of the most overrated poets I've ever encountered. Do you guys actually see this second-rate stuff as great? Outside of Schiller and some of Goethe German is not a good poetic language, stop tricking anglos into bothering to learn it. Rilke is literally just babby's first serious poet, the Nietzsche of the form.
Adrian Rodriguez
u are trolling right m8? Rilke is a fucking god you filthy pleb, absolut aesthetic perfection, the guy was a divine bard like no other and don't forget >Kloppstock >Novalis >Tieck >Eichendorff >Hölderlin >Heine >Droste-Hülshoff >Mörike >Fontane >Hesse >Benn >Brecht just to name a few now get outta here b4 I call the cops
Caleb Russell
*blockiert deinen Weg*
David Watson
Is there anything more pleb than reading books in the original language?
>jealous monoglots can only read books in the original language >patrician polyglots like myself can read the works of Goethe in French, the masterpieces of Proust in the superior Russian, Chinese and Japanese works in the opposite language, etc., opening up new vistas of interpretation and understanding
I tried reading a book in the original language once, just to see what it's like being a pleb, and it was a suffocating and nauseous experience. I pity those for whom there is no other option.
Michael Garcia
>List of a handful of middle-tier romantic nonsense poets=German is a poetic language You literally had to include Hesse in that list for fuck's sake lol. I don't know if you're a triggered German or just a passionate outsider but let's acknowledge that poetry is not our strength. I get annoyed when other Euros on here start feeling ultra smug about their bilingual powers because it encourages anglos to ignore their own superior poetic tradition in favour of wasting their time on duolingo so they can be "blown away" by flat garbage like Rilke. This is not b8, I'm just being honest whilst most Germans on here want desperately to feel superior.
Luis Fisher
>T. Anglofat
David Garcia
>stop tricking anglos lolno
Camden Rivera
German, actually. But stay mad.
Henry White
>superior poetic tradition >anglos I'm sorry?
Zachary Evans
I'm only bilingual so I don't read Italian. But three major poets in a language does not make for a great poetic tradition imo.
Christian Hall
>muh iambic pentameter admittetly some of the english romantics are pretty good no denying it but saying >that poetry is not our strength is ridiculous None of them surpasses Hölderlin and his Ode's in that sweet, sweet Hexameter, or the witty tongue-in-cheek romantic style of Heine, or the aesthetic beauty of Rilke
Carson Diaz
Italy has more than three major poets my dude.
Hunter Davis
>None of them surpasses Hölderlin...Heine...Rilke You have your own preferences but if we're being honest then both Milton and Spenser alone are light years ahead of these figures. I'll accept that Hölderlin has his moments but Keats run circles around his oeuvre, and romanticism as a poetic tradition was really perfected by English not German.
Michael Turner
I saw a band do a cover of Autobahn on Youtube a few years ago. It was actually pretty good.
Luis Campbell
Spanish is so poetic, Quevedo and Góngora tolled each other in verse just for the sake of it. That is some real legacy.
Ayden Stewart
me pls leave
Caleb Cox
>italian have 3 major poets Fucking burn this retarded board already
Carson Stewart
Sure amerifat, whatever you say
Eli Nguyen
Is reading German poetry a good way to improve vocabulary? I'm around A2 and it feels like it's impossible to break the barrier to B1.
Oliver Nguyen
How old are you?
Rilke is literally the only reason I want to learn German.