Sonetti a Orfeo

Çevirideki hüneri ve emeği saygıyla ayırarak söylemeli, pek çokları gibi şiirde çeviriye inanmıyorum; lakin Orpheus'a Soneler'de gözün yüzeyde dahi olsa avlayabildiği, zihnin bir anlığına bile olsa Türkçe duyup kavrayabildiği her şey, büyük -söylenmiş- bir şiire işaret ediyor, bunu hissettiriyor. Ha Leggi tutto

Video Review (Nazi Germany series). My 9th best read of 2020. A song that harkens Carpe Diem as a duty. A poem that sustains metaphysical eternal truths against the inevitability of death. That we love forever but die in a century. That nature is an eternal cycle of life that our bodies are riding ins Leggi tutto

Ο ποιητής ως άλλος Ορφέας αποτίει φόρο τιμής με τα σονέτα του στη δική του Ευρυδίκη. Μέσα από τη χρήση μυθολογικών στοιχείων ο ποιητικός λόγος του R. M. Rilke διανθίζεται και αποκτά μεταφυσική υπόσταση. Παραθέτω αγαπημένα θραύσματα ποιημάτων υιοθετώντας τη φράση του Γ. Κεντρωτή  "δεν ακούνε όλοι τα Leggi tutto

Even as the farmer laborsthere where the seed turns into summer,it is not his work. It is Earth who gives. Despite the parched ground it is but a shade of spring outside. The world appears geared to disrupt such edenic days with the distant rumble of foreign thunder and a blurred blunder on the butto Leggi tutto

Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus were written, remarkably, in a few weeks in a kind creative overflow after finishing The Duino Elegies, a group of ten poems that took Rilke ten years to write. Hearing these poems in German is a memorable experience (even if you don't know the language). They are little t Leggi tutto