{"work":{"slug":"rilke","title":{"source":"Neue Gedichte","translated":"New Poems"},"author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","language":"German","languageCode":"de","url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke"},"unit":{"kind":"poem","number":null,"id":"auferstehung","title":{"source":"Auferstehung","translated":"Resurrection"},"section":"New Poems","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/auferstehung","lines":15},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-koenig","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-fahnentraeger","license":"Source text: public domain (Rainer Maria Rilke, died 1926; Neue Gedichte published 1907 and 1908), from Wikisource. English translation and notes: © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC. Narration: synthesized for this edition.","audioBase":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/","lines":[{"number":1,"label":"1","id":"auferstehung-s1-l1","source":"Der Graf vernimmt die Töne,","translation":"The count makes out the sounds,","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"vernimmt","title":"A formal verb for hearing","body":"Vernehmen, third person vernimmt, is a more formal verb for 'to perceive, to make out, to catch a sound', more elevated than the everyday hören, 'to hear'. It also carries a legal sense, 'to interrogate, to take a statement'. Die Töne means 'the sounds'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Graf","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Graf","lemma":"Graf","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of vernimmt","gloss":"count"},{"surface":"vernimmt","lemma":"vernehmen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"makes out"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, plural","role":"depends on Töne","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Töne","lemma":"Ton","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on vernimmt","gloss":"sounds"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"auferstehung-s1-l2","source":"er sieht einen lichten Riß;","translation":"he sees a rift of light;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"lichten Riß","title":"licht versus leicht","body":"Licht is an adjective meaning 'bright, full of light, luminous', related to das Licht, 'light'. Do not confuse it with leicht, 'light in weight'. Der Riß, now spelled Riss, means 'a tear, crack, rift'. Einen lichten Riß is accusative, the object of sieht."}],"words":[{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of sieht","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"sieht","lemma":"sehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"sees"},{"surface":"einen","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Riß","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"lichten","lemma":"licht","morphology":"adjective, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Riß","gloss":"of light"},{"surface":"Riß","lemma":"Riß","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on sieht","gloss":"rift"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"auferstehung-s1-l3","source":"er weckt seine dreizehn Söhne","translation":"he wakes his thirteen sons","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of weckt","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"weckt","lemma":"wecken","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"wakes"},{"surface":"seine","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Söhne","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"dreizehn","lemma":"dreizehn","morphology":"numeral","role":"depends on Söhne","gloss":"thirteen"},{"surface":"Söhne","lemma":"Sohn","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on weckt","gloss":"sons"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"auferstehung-s1-l4","source":"im Erbbegräbnis.","translation":"in the family vault.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Erbbegräbnis","title":"A compound for the family vault","body":"Erbbegräbnis combines das Erbe, 'inheritance, heritage', and das Begräbnis, 'burial, grave'. It names the hereditary family tomb that passes down a noble line. Im Erbbegräbnis is dative after in, marking location, 'in the family vault'."}],"words":[{"surface":"im","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on weckt (previous line)","gloss":"in the"},{"surface":"Erbbegräbnis","lemma":"Erbbegräbnis","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on im","gloss":"family vault"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"auferstehung-s2-l1","source":"Er grüßt seine beiden Frauen","translation":"He greets his two wives","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"seine beiden Frauen","title":"Weak ending after a possessive","body":"Beide means 'both, the two of them'. After the possessive seine it takes the weak adjective ending -en: seine beiden Frauen means 'his two wives'. Frauen is accusative plural, the object of grüßt."}],"words":[{"surface":"Er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of grüßt","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"grüßt","lemma":"grüßen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"greets"},{"surface":"seine","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Frauen","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"beiden","lemma":"beide","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Frauen","gloss":"two"},{"surface":"Frauen","lemma":"Frau","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on grüßt","gloss":"wives"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"auferstehung-s2-l2","source":"ehrerbietig von weit–;","translation":"deferentially, from afar—;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ehrerbietig","title":"A formal word for respect","body":"Ehrerbietig means 'respectful, deferential, reverent'. It is built from Ehre, 'honor', and the old verb erbieten, 'to offer, to show'. It functions here as an adverb depending on grüßt. Von weit means 'from afar'."}],"words":[{"surface":"ehrerbietig","lemma":"ehrerbietig","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on grüßt (previous line)","gloss":"deferentially"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on ehrerbietig","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"weit–","lemma":"weit","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on von","gloss":"afar"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"auferstehung-s2-l3","source":"und alle voll Vertrauen","translation":"and all of them, full of trust,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"voll Vertrauen","title":"A noun without an article","body":"Voll, 'full of', here governs a noun with no article: voll Vertrauen means 'full of trust'. Das Vertrauen means 'trust, confidence', from vertrauen, 'to trust'. The phrase depends on alle, 'all of them'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects to grüßt (introduces a new coordinated clause)","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"alle","lemma":"aller","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"subject of stehn (s2-l4)","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"voll","lemma":"voll","morphology":"adjective, predicate (uninflected), governs Vertrauen","role":"depends on alle","gloss":"full of"},{"surface":"Vertrauen","lemma":"vertrauen","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"trust"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"auferstehung-s2-l4","source":"stehn auf zur Ewigkeit","translation":"rise up toward eternity","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"stehn auf","title":"Separable verb aufstehen split","body":"The verb is aufstehen, 'to stand up, to rise'. Stehn, a poetic contraction of stehen, stays in the clause while the prefix auf is placed after it. Sie stehn auf means 'they rise'. Zur Ewigkeit is dative after zu, 'toward eternity'."}],"words":[{"surface":"stehn","lemma":"aufstehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence (subject: alle, previous line)","gloss":"rise up","note":"stehn is a poetic contraction of stehen; combined with the separated prefix auf, it forms aufstehen ('to rise up'), agreeing with the plural subject alle."},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"separable verb particle","role":"depends on stehn","gloss":"up"},{"surface":"zur","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on stehn","gloss":"toward"},{"surface":"Ewigkeit","lemma":"Ewigkeit","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on zur","gloss":"eternity"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"auferstehung-s3-l1","source":"und warten nur noch auf Erich","translation":"and wait now only for Erich","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"warten … auf","title":"Takes the accusative case","body":"Warten auf means 'to wait for'. Auf here governs the accusative, the thing awaited: auf Erich means 'for Erich'. Nur noch is an idiom meaning 'only still, nothing left but'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"coordinates warten with stehn (previous line)","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"warten","lemma":"warten","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"coordinated with stehn (subject: alle)","gloss":"wait"},{"surface":"nur","lemma":"nur","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on warten","gloss":"only"},{"surface":"noch","lemma":"noch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nur","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on warten","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"Erich","lemma":"Erich","morphology":"proper noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"Erich"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"auferstehung-s3-l2","source":"und Ulriken Dorotheen,","translation":"and Ulrike Dorothea,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Ulriken Dorotheen","title":"An old accusative on names","body":"Ulriken and Dorotheen carry an archaic -en ending, the old way German declined personal names, especially women's, in the accusative or dative. Ulrike becomes Ulriken. Governed by warten auf from the line above, they name the second awaited child."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"coordinates Ulriken with Erich (previous line)","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Ulriken","lemma":"Ulrike","morphology":"proper noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"coordinated with Erich, object of auf (s3-l1)","gloss":"Ulrike"},{"surface":"Dorotheen","lemma":"Dorothea","morphology":"proper noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"in apposition to Ulriken (second given name)","gloss":"Dorothea"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"auferstehung-s3-l3","source":"die sieben- und dreizehnjährig","translation":"who, aged seven and thirteen,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"sieben- und dreizehnjährig","title":"Turning a number into an age","body":"The suffix -jährig turns a number into an age adjective: dreizehnjährig means 'thirteen years old'. The hanging hyphen in sieben- is a shared-element ellipsis standing for siebenjährig, so the phrase means 'seven years old and thirteen years old'. Die is the relative pronoun 'who' for both children."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"relative pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"refers to Erich und Ulriken Dorotheen (previous lines) — subject of the relative clause","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"sieben-","lemma":"sieben","morphology":"numeral (part of compound adjective sieben[jährig])","role":"depends on dreizehnjährig","gloss":"aged seven"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on dreizehnjährig","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"dreizehnjährig","lemma":"dreizehnjährig","morphology":"adjective, predicate (uninflected)","role":"depends on die","gloss":"aged thirteen"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"auferstehung-s3-l4","source":"(sechzehnhundertzehn)","translation":"(sixteen hundred and ten)","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"sechzehnhundertzehn","title":"Reading a year in hundreds","body":"German reads four-digit years in hundreds. Sechzehnhundertzehn means 'sixteen hundred ten', the year 1610. It depends on verstorben in the next line, stating the year of death."}],"words":[{"surface":"sechzehnhundertzehn","lemma":"sechzehnhundertzehn","morphology":"numeral","role":"depends on verstorben (next line) — states the year of death","gloss":"sixteen hundred and ten"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"auferstehung-s3-l5","source":"verstorben sind in Flandern,","translation":"died in Flanders,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s3-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"verstorben sind","title":"Perfect tense formed with sein","body":"Versterben, 'to pass away, to die', is an elevated form of sterben. Verbs of change of state form the perfect with sein, not haben: sie sind verstorben means 'they died'. The participle verstorben and the auxiliary sind land together at the end of the relative clause."}],"words":[{"surface":"verstorben","lemma":"versterben","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"died"},{"surface":"sind","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on sind","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"Flandern","lemma":"Flandern","morphology":"proper noun, dative, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"Flanders"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"auferstehung-s3-l6","source":"um heute vor den andern","translation":"so as today, ahead of the others,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s3-l6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"um … herzugehn","title":"A purpose clause split across lines","body":"This line opens an um zu construction, 'in order to', that completes only in the final line with herzugehn. Um heute vor den andern herzugehn means 'in order to walk ahead of the others today'. Vor den andern is dative after vor, marking position."}],"words":[{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on herzugehn (s3-l7) — forms the um...zu purpose clause","gloss":"so as to","note":"um...zu is a purpose construction split across two lines: um heute vor den andern unbeirrt herzugehn = 'in order to walk on ahead of the others today, unswerving'."},{"surface":"heute","lemma":"heute","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on herzugehn (s3-l7)","gloss":"today"},{"surface":"vor","lemma":"vor","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on herzugehn (s3-l7)","gloss":"ahead of"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on andern","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"andern","lemma":"anderer","morphology":"adjective, dative, plural","role":"depends on vor","gloss":"others"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"auferstehung-s3-l7","source":"unbeirrt herzugehn.","translation":"walk on, unswerving.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/auferstehung-s3-l7.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"unbeirrt herzugehn","title":"A verb of motion, split","body":"Unbeirrt means 'unswerving, undeterred', from beirren, 'to confuse, to disconcert'. Herzugehen is a separable verb of motion, 'to walk along, to come toward here'. With um zu, the zu sits inside the verb as her-zu-gehn. Together they mean 'to walk on undeterred'."}],"words":[{"surface":"unbeirrt","lemma":"unbeirrt","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on herzugehn","gloss":"unswerving"},{"surface":"herzugehn","lemma":"hergehen","morphology":"verb, infinitive (zu-infinitive, poetic elision of herzugehen)","role":"infinitive verb of the um...zu clause (s3-l6)","gloss":"to walk on"}]}]}