Goethe’s Lyrical Discourse in the 5th Poem of ‘Römische Elegien’

Abstract

The discourse is generally meaningful, with essential potential in the field of communication as an indisputable feature of the society. Meanwhile, the lyrical discourse, as a segment of mass discourse, marks a specialized communication in poetic literary works, namely in the conversational plane between the giver and the recipient. The most specified element of this literary genre is the lyrical ‘Ich-Form’, which, among other text-building signs, is the most analyzed and discussed one of the 5th poem of Goethe’s lyrical-elegiac work, ‘Römische Elegien’.

The study lyrical discourse in the 5th poem of Römische Elegien” presents the composition of the lyrical song in general, built and structured by the multitude of textual components and typical elements of the lyrical song. The organization of all signs in the text is laid out and arranged with precision and deep philosophy, building thus an unprecedented lexical, syntactic, semantic and stylistic unity. As a master of words, thoughts and poetic expressions in the discussed poem, Goethe has realized a source with different directions of linguistic and aesthetic flows, through which the recipient receives a lot of information marked with arrhythmic pulses. This study will be an initiative for analyzing some stylistic issues in the lyrical discourse and its elements in this well-known German poem, as issues that have not been explored yet.