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Lang die Abendglocke läutet
Jan. 11th, 2007 11:59 pm
Currently at UW: 1. High today: 4.5. So much for winter, sort of, for a bit. Glops of wet snow falling now. It's into the -30s in the Canadian West--where did it, all of a sudden, come from?
I've never really felt like I need German for Heidegger, but I feel the tug from Trakl. Poetic philosophy is one thing, but poetry proper is another. I have just learned that Wittgenstein was Trakl's anonymous patron, and that Wittgenstein went to visit Trakl when he heard that Trakl was despairing and suicidal, but that Trakl was dead of a cocaine overdose by the time he got there. Over on and spinning off of Leiter's blog, now, there's a debate about whether Wittgenstein could get tenure these days. O, Lord.
Because I saw in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pnijjar's eljay that Leslie Harpold had died and that this was important--I'd never heard of Leslie Harpold--I ended up reading this poem, "The Onset", which was, as far as I was concerned, unfamiliar, and I was quite taken by it, and thinking vaguely that here, whoever wrote this, might be another poet I might place alongside Frost (because it has bothered me somewhat, for a long time, that Frost is the only poet I really care about)--and then I got to the end, and of course it's by Robert Frost.
I've never really felt like I need German for Heidegger, but I feel the tug from Trakl. Poetic philosophy is one thing, but poetry proper is another. I have just learned that Wittgenstein was Trakl's anonymous patron, and that Wittgenstein went to visit Trakl when he heard that Trakl was despairing and suicidal, but that Trakl was dead of a cocaine overdose by the time he got there. Over on and spinning off of Leiter's blog, now, there's a debate about whether Wittgenstein could get tenure these days. O, Lord.
Because I saw in
pnijjar's eljay that Leslie Harpold had died and that this was important--I'd never heard of Leslie Harpold--I ended up reading this poem, "The Onset", which was, as far as I was concerned, unfamiliar, and I was quite taken by it, and thinking vaguely that here, whoever wrote this, might be another poet I might place alongside Frost (because it has bothered me somewhat, for a long time, that Frost is the only poet I really care about)--and then I got to the end, and of course it's by Robert Frost.
