Tag: Goethe

Spring Is Acoming

I like this shot of our local park. All that is missing are people, then it would be very close to Cee’s photo.

And although it is not yet Easter, it’s been such a mild winter that Cee’s strollers in the park reminded me of the famous “Easter Walk” from Goethe’s Faust (the translation is by Edgar Alfred Bowring):

From the ice they are freed, the stream and brook,
By the Spring’s enlivening, lovely look;  [....]
Growth and formation stir everywhere,
‘Twould fain with colours make all things bright,
Though in the landscape are no blossoms fair.
Instead it takes gay-decked humanity.

Faust observes people leaving the city for their first spring walk-about on Easter Sunday. There are not enough flowers yet, so the people in their Sunday finery supply the colours.

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J.W.v.G.

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There are glimpses of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe all over Frankfurt, which is to be expected since it is his hometown.  This huge quote on the side of a building in the Ostend is from his early novel – hence the signatur “the young G.” – alluding to the bible verse “Where, o death, is thy sting?” And he signed a letter to his lover in English, a few years later.

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