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In this article, I would like to focus on four poems written with almost the same background: the German world at the beginning of the twentieth century. An additional factor connecting the four poems is their biblical theme: Abisag of Sunem. The poems are ‘Abisag von Sunem’ (by Agnes Miegel); ‘David und Abisag’ (Erstes Buch der Könige, Kapitel 1.1–4)’ by Franz Theodor Csokor; ‘Abisag’ by R.M. Rilke;...
The New Testament parable of the “Prodigal Son” has many interpretations in literature and art. In this article I focus on two poetic examples: Rilke’s “Der Auszug des Verlorenen Sohnes” and Lea Goldberg’s “The Prodigal Son,” a cycle of three poems: “On the Road,” “In the House,” and “Repentance”. I will show the differences between the poets’ approaches to the parable. “The Parable of the Prodigal...
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