De Profundis By Georg Trakl
This summer I decided to read one book and two poems (one classical and one contemporary) from Austria. The classical poem I read was De Profundis, by Georg Trakl. This poem is about death, and specifically a disease. However, is not only about death but about his death. He shows it to us by saying: "Spiders look for my heart". A poem that is very different from this one, is the poem The Black Death, by Matthew Henning. Both poems talk about death and a disease, however, there is a very big difference. In the poem De Profundis, the author talks in a way which shows he does not want to die, while in Henning's poem, we can see he is scared and wants this disease to disappear: "Will the slop of our miserable lives ever be washed clean?"
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