{"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":"der-berg","title":{"source":"Der Berg","translated":"The Mountain"},"section":"New Poems: The Other Part","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-berg","lines":16},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-berufung","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-ball","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":"der-berg-s1-l1","source":"Sechsunddreißigmal und hundertmal","translation":"Six-and-thirty times and a hundred times","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Sechsunddreißigmal","title":"Numbers plus -mal, times","body":"Sechsunddreißigmal means 'six-and-thirty times', combining the number sechsunddreißig, 'thirty-six', with the suffix -mal, 'times'. hundertmal likewise means 'a hundred times'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Sechsunddreißigmal","lemma":"sechsunddreißigmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"six-and-thirty times"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Sechsunddreißigmal","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"hundertmal","lemma":"hundertmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on und","gloss":"a hundred times"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"der-berg-s1-l2","source":"hat der Maler jenen Berg geschrieben,","translation":"the painter has written that mountain,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"geschrieben","title":"Written, used for painting","body":"geschrieben is the past participle of schreiben, which usually means 'to write' but here describes the painter's repeated act of painting the mountain: 'the painter has written that mountain', as though each painting were an entry or attempt."}],"words":[{"surface":"hat","lemma":"haben","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"has"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Maler","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Maler","lemma":"Maler","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of hat","gloss":"painter"},{"surface":"jenen","lemma":"jener","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Berg","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"Berg","lemma":"Berg","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on geschrieben","gloss":"mountain"},{"surface":"geschrieben","lemma":"schreiben","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on hat","gloss":"written"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"der-berg-s1-l3","source":"weggerissen, wieder hingetrieben","translation":"torn away, driven back again,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"weggerissen … hingetrieben","title":"Two past participles in a row","body":"weggerissen and hingetrieben are past participles of wegreißen, 'to tear away', and hintreiben, 'to drive toward, to drive back'. Both describe the same unnamed subject, the painter or his attention, without a stated main verb."}],"words":[{"surface":"weggerissen","lemma":"wegreißen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"coordinated with geschrieben, depends on hat (der-berg-s1-l2-w1)","gloss":"torn away"},{"surface":"wieder","lemma":"wieder","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hingetrieben","gloss":"again"},{"surface":"hingetrieben","lemma":"hintreiben","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"coordinated with weggerissen and geschrieben, depends on hat (der-berg-s1-l2-w1)","gloss":"driven back"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"der-berg-s1-l4","source":"(sechsunddreißigmal und hundertmal)","translation":"(six-and-thirty times and a hundred times)","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"sechsunddreißigmal","lemma":"sechsunddreißigmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"six-and-thirty times"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on sechsunddreißigmal","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"hundertmal","lemma":"hundertmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on und","gloss":"a hundred times"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"der-berg-s2-l1","source":"zu dem unbegreiflichen Vulkane,","translation":"to the incomprehensible volcano,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"zu dem … Vulkane","title":"Preposition taking the dative","body":"zu, 'to, toward', always takes the dative case. dem unbegreiflichen Vulkane is dative singular of der Vulkan, 'volcano', with an older dative ending -e still visible on Vulkane."}],"words":[{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Vulkane","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"unbegreiflichen","lemma":"unbegreiflich","morphology":"adjective, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Vulkane","gloss":"incomprehensible"},{"surface":"Vulkane","lemma":"Vulkan","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on zu","gloss":"volcano"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"der-berg-s2-l2","source":"selig, voll Versuchung, ohne Rat,–","translation":"blissful, full of temptation, at a loss,—","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ohne Rat","title":"An idiom, at a loss","body":"ohne Rat literally means 'without counsel', an idiom for being at a loss, uncertain what to do. Rat means 'counsel, advice'; ohne, 'without', takes the accusative."}],"words":[{"surface":"selig","lemma":"selig","morphology":"adjective","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"blissful"},{"surface":"voll","lemma":"voll","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on selig","gloss":"full of"},{"surface":"Versuchung","lemma":"Versuchung","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"temptation"},{"surface":"ohne","lemma":"ohne","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on selig","gloss":"without"},{"surface":"Rat,–","lemma":"Rat","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on ohne","gloss":"counsel"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"der-berg-s2-l3","source":"während der mit Umriß Angetane","translation":"while the one clad with outline","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"der mit Umriß Angetane","title":"A noun made from a participle","body":"Angetane is the past participle of antun, 'to put on, to clothe with', turned into a noun, 'the one clad'. der mit Umriß Angetane means 'the one clad with outline', with mit Umriß, 'with outline', describing how he is dressed."}],"words":[{"surface":"während","lemma":"während","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on tat (der-berg-s2-l4-w5)","gloss":"while"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Angetane","gloss":"the one"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Angetane","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"Umriß","lemma":"Umriß","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"outline"},{"surface":"Angetane","lemma":"antun","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of tat (der-berg-s2-l4-w5)","gloss":"clad one"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"der-berg-s2-l4","source":"seiner Herrlichkeit nicht Einhalt tat:","translation":"called no halt to its glory:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Einhalt … tat","title":"An idiom, to call a halt","body":"Einhalt tun is an idiom meaning 'to call a halt, to put a stop to something'. Einhalt means 'halt, check'; tat is the simple past of tun, 'to do'. Negated by nicht, it means 'called no halt'."}],"words":[{"surface":"seiner","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Herrlichkeit","gloss":"its"},{"surface":"Herrlichkeit","lemma":"Herrlichkeit","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on tat","gloss":"glory"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on tat","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"Einhalt","lemma":"Einhalt","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on tat","gloss":"halt"},{"surface":"tat","lemma":"tun","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"called"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"der-berg-s3-l1","source":"tausendmal aus allen Tagen tauchend,","translation":"a thousand times surfacing out of all the days,","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"tauchend","title":"Present participle, surfacing repeatedly","body":"tauchend is the present participle of tauchen, 'to dive, to plunge, to surface'. tausendmal aus allen Tagen tauchend means 'surfacing a thousand times out of all the days', an ongoing, repeated action."}],"words":[{"surface":"tausendmal","lemma":"tausendmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on tauchend","gloss":"a thousand times"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on tauchend","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"allen","lemma":"aller","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Tagen","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"Tagen","lemma":"Tag","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"days"},{"surface":"tauchend","lemma":"tauchen","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"participle modifying the subject (der Berg)","gloss":"surfacing"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"der-berg-s3-l2","source":"Nächte ohnegleichen von sich ab","translation":"letting nights without equal fall away","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ohnegleichen","title":"A compound meaning without equal","body":"ohnegleichen means 'without equal, unparalleled', combining ohne, 'without', and gleichen, 'to resemble, to equal'. Nächte ohnegleichen means 'nights without equal'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Nächte","lemma":"Nacht","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"object of lassend (der-berg-s3-l3-w2)","gloss":"nights"},{"surface":"ohnegleichen","lemma":"ohnegleichen","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Nächte","gloss":"without equal"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on ab","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on von","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"ab","lemma":"ab","morphology":"particle","role":"combines with fallen (der-berg-s3-l3-w1) as abfallen, to fall away","gloss":"away"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"der-berg-s3-l3","source":"fallen lassend, alle wie zu knapp;","translation":"from itself, all of them as if too scant;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"von sich ab fallen lassend","title":"Causative verb, letting fall","body":"fallen lassend combines the infinitive fallen, 'to fall', with the present participle of lassen, 'to let', meaning 'letting fall'. lassen plus an infinitive names something the subject permits or causes to happen."}],"words":[{"surface":"fallen","lemma":"fallen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"combines with ab (der-berg-s3-l2-w5) as abfallen; complement of lassend","gloss":"fall"},{"surface":"lassend","lemma":"lassen","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"main verb of the sentence (participle modifying the subject)","gloss":"letting"},{"surface":"alle","lemma":"alle","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"refers to Nächte","gloss":"all of them"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on knapp","gloss":"as if"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on knapp","gloss":"too"},{"surface":"knapp","lemma":"knapp","morphology":"adjective","role":"modifies alle (via wie...zu knapp)","gloss":"scant"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"der-berg-s3-l4","source":"jedes Bild im Augenblick verbrauchend,","translation":"using up each image in the instant,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"verbrauchend","title":"Present participle, using up","body":"verbrauchend is the present participle of verbrauchen, 'to use up, to consume'. jedes Bild im Augenblick verbrauchend means 'using up each image in the instant'."}],"words":[{"surface":"jedes","lemma":"jeder","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Bild","gloss":"each"},{"surface":"Bild","lemma":"Bild","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"object of verbrauchend","gloss":"image"},{"surface":"im","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on verbrauchend","gloss":"in the"},{"surface":"Augenblick","lemma":"Augenblick","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on im","gloss":"instant"},{"surface":"verbrauchend","lemma":"verbrauchen","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"participle modifying the subject, parallel to tauchend","gloss":"using up"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"der-berg-s3-l5","source":"von Gestalt gesteigert zu Gestalt,","translation":"heightened from form to form,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s3-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"von Gestalt … zu Gestalt","title":"Marking a path, form to form","body":"von Gestalt gesteigert zu Gestalt means 'heightened from form to form', with von and zu marking the starting and ending points. gesteigert is the past participle of steigern, 'to heighten, to intensify'."}],"words":[{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gesteigert","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"Gestalt","lemma":"Gestalt","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"form"},{"surface":"gesteigert","lemma":"steigern","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"participle modifying the subject, parallel to tauchend, verbrauchend","gloss":"heightened"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gesteigert","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"Gestalt","lemma":"Gestalt","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on zu","gloss":"form"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"der-berg-s3-l6","source":"teilnahmslos und weit und ohne Meinung–,","translation":"indifferent and vast and without opinion—,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s3-l6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"teilnahmslos","title":"Suffix -los makes indifferent","body":"teilnahmslos means 'indifferent, without participation', combining Teilnahme, 'participation', with the negating suffix -los. It describes the mountain as teilnahmslos und weit und ohne Meinung, 'indifferent and vast and without opinion'."}],"words":[{"surface":"teilnahmslos","lemma":"teilnahmslos","morphology":"adjective","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"indifferent"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on teilnahmslos","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"weit","lemma":"weit","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on und","gloss":"vast"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on weit","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"ohne","lemma":"ohne","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on und","gloss":"without"},{"surface":"Meinung–","lemma":"Meinung","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on ohne","gloss":"opinion"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"der-berg-s3-l7","source":"um auf einmal wissend, wie Erscheinung,","translation":"in order all at once, knowing, like an apparition,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s3-l7.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"um … sich zu heben","title":"Opening another purpose clause","body":"um here begins an um ... zu construction, completed by sich zu heben in the next line: 'in order, all at once knowing, like an apparition, to lift itself'. wissend is the present participle of wissen, 'to know'."}],"words":[{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on heben (der-berg-s3-l8-w3)","gloss":"in order"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wissend","gloss":"at"},{"surface":"einmal","lemma":"einmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"at once"},{"surface":"wissend","lemma":"wissen","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"modifies the subject, parallel to tauchend, gesteigert, verbrauchend","gloss":"knowing"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"Erscheinung","lemma":"Erscheinung","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"apparition"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"der-berg-s3-l8","source":"sich zu heben hinter jedem Spalt.","translation":"to lift itself behind every cleft.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-berg-s3-l8.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"sich zu heben hinter jedem Spalt","title":"Infinitive completes a purpose clause","body":"sich zu heben, 'to lift itself', completes the um ... zu construction begun in the line before. hinter jedem Spalt means 'behind every cleft', naming where the lifting happens."}],"words":[{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"heben","lemma":"heben","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the um-zu clause (der-berg-s3-l7-w1)","gloss":"to lift"},{"surface":"hinter","lemma":"hinter","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"behind"},{"surface":"jedem","lemma":"jeder","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Spalt","gloss":"every"},{"surface":"Spalt","lemma":"Spalt","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on hinter","gloss":"cleft"}]}]}