{"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-dichter","title":{"source":"Der Dichter","translated":"The Poet"},"section":"New Poems","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-dichter","lines":8},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/kindheit","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-spitze","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-dichter-s1-l1","source":"Du entfernst dich von mir, du Stunde.","translation":"You draw away from me, you hour.","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-dichter-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"entfernst dich","title":"A reflexive verb of motion","body":"sich entfernen means 'to move away, withdraw'. The reflexive pronoun dich belongs to the verb, not a separate object: du entfernst dich means 'you remove yourself, you move off'. The poet addresses the hour directly with the familiar du."}],"words":[{"surface":"Du","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on entfernst","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"entfernst","lemma":"entfernen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"draw away"},{"surface":"dich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on entfernst","gloss":"yourself"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on entfernst","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"mir","lemma":"mir","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"du","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"vocative, in apposition with Stunde","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"Stunde","lemma":"Stunde","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"vocative, apposition with du","gloss":"hour","note":"Direct address (vocative) — 'you, o hour' — so Stunde takes the nominative form, not accusative."}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"der-dichter-s1-l2","source":"Wunden schlägt mir dein Flügelschlag.","translation":"Your wingbeat strikes me wounds.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-dichter-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Wunden schlägt mir dein Flügelschlag","title":"A fronted object, verb still second","body":"German keeps the finite verb in second position even when something other than the subject opens the line. Here the object Wunden, 'wounds', is fronted; schlägt holds second place; the subject dein Flügelschlag follows."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Flügelschlag","title":"A compound noun for one wingbeat","body":"Flügelschlag compounds Flügel, 'wing', and Schlag, 'beat, blow', naming a single stroke of a wing. It echoes schlägt, 'strikes', in the same line, so the wing that beats is also the thing that wounds."}],"words":[{"surface":"Wunden","lemma":"Wunde","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on schlägt","gloss":"wounds"},{"surface":"schlägt","lemma":"schlagen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"strikes"},{"surface":"mir","lemma":"mir","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"depends on schlägt","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"dein","lemma":"dein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Flügelschlag","gloss":"your"},{"surface":"Flügelschlag","lemma":"Flügelschlag","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on schlägt","gloss":"wingbeat"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"der-dichter-s1-l3","source":"Allein: was soll ich mit meinem Munde?","translation":"Alone: what am I to do with my mouth?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-dichter-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"was soll ich mit","title":"sollen asking what to do","body":"The modal sollen here is not obligation but bewilderment: was soll ich mit meinem Munde? means 'what am I supposed to do with my mouth?'. Munde is the dative of Mund with the old -e ending, kept here for the verse."}],"words":[{"surface":"Allein","lemma":"allein","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on soll","gloss":"alone"},{"surface":"was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on soll","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"soll","lemma":"sollen","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"am I to"},{"surface":"ich","lemma":"ich","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on soll","gloss":"I"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on soll","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"meinem","lemma":"mein","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Munde","gloss":"my"},{"surface":"Munde","lemma":"Mund","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"mouth","note":"'Munde' is an archaic poetic dative singular of 'Mund' (standard modern dative is just 'Mund')."}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"der-dichter-s1-l4","source":"mit meiner Nacht? mit meinem Tag?","translation":"with my night? with my day?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-dichter-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"mit meiner Nacht","title":"mit always takes the dative","body":"The preposition mit, 'with', always governs the dative, which is why the possessives shift to meiner Nacht, feminine dative, and meinem Tag, masculine dative. The fragments continue the question of what to do with his nights and days."}],"words":[{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"meiner","lemma":"mein","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Nacht","gloss":"my"},{"surface":"Nacht","lemma":"Nacht","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"night"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"meinem","lemma":"mein","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Tag","gloss":"my"},{"surface":"Tag","lemma":"Tag","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"day"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"der-dichter-s2-l1","source":"Ich habe keine Geliebte, kein Haus,","translation":"I have no beloved, no house,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-dichter-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"keine Geliebte, kein Haus","title":"kein negates a noun","body":"German negates a noun with kein, 'not a, no', rather than nicht. It declines like the indefinite article ein: keine Geliebte, feminine, and kein Haus, neuter. Geliebte, 'beloved', is an adjectival noun, feminine here for a female beloved."}],"words":[{"surface":"Ich","lemma":"ich","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on habe","gloss":"I"},{"surface":"habe","lemma":"haben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"keine","lemma":"kein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Geliebte","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"Geliebte","lemma":"Geliebte","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on habe","gloss":"beloved"},{"surface":"kein","lemma":"kein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Haus","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"Haus","lemma":"Haus","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on habe","gloss":"house"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"der-dichter-s2-l2","source":"keine Stelle, auf der ich lebe.","translation":"no place on which I live.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-dichter-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"auf der ich lebe","title":"A relative clause sends the verb to the end","body":"auf der ich lebe is a relative clause: der is the dative relative pronoun, feminine, after auf, referring back to Stelle, 'place'. In a subordinate clause the finite verb moves to the very end, so lebe, 'I live', closes the line."}],"words":[{"surface":"keine","lemma":"kein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Stelle","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"Stelle","lemma":"Stelle","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on habe","gloss":"place"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on lebe","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"ich","lemma":"ich","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on lebe","gloss":"I"},{"surface":"lebe","lemma":"leben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"main verb of the relative clause (modifies Stelle)","gloss":"live"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"der-dichter-s2-l3","source":"Alle Dinge, an die ich mich gebe,","translation":"All things to which I give myself,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-dichter-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"an die ich mich gebe","title":"To give oneself over to something","body":"sich geben an etwas means 'to give oneself over, devote oneself to something'. an die is the relative pronoun governed by an, marking the direction of giving, pointing back to alle Dinge. The reflexive mich makes the poet himself the gift."}],"words":[{"surface":"Alle","lemma":"aller","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on Dinge","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"Dinge","lemma":"Ding","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"things"},{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gebe","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural","role":"depends on an","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"ich","lemma":"ich","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on gebe","gloss":"I"},{"surface":"mich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on gebe","gloss":"myself"},{"surface":"gebe","lemma":"geben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular","role":"main verb of the relative clause (modifies Dinge)","gloss":"give"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"der-dichter-s2-l4","source":"werden reich und geben mich aus.","translation":"grow rich and spend me away.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-dichter-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"geben mich aus","title":"A separable verb meaning to spend","body":"ausgeben means 'to spend money, to expend'. It is separable: in a main clause the prefix aus splits off and goes to the end, leaving geben … aus wrapped around the object mich. The things the poet gives himself to grow rich and spend him."}],"words":[{"surface":"werden","lemma":"werden","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"grow"},{"surface":"reich","lemma":"reich","morphology":"adjective, predicate, uninflected","role":"depends on werden","gloss":"rich"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on werden","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"geben","lemma":"geben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"depends on und","gloss":"spend"},{"surface":"mich","lemma":"mich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"depends on geben","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"separable verb particle (ausgeben)","role":"depends on geben","gloss":"away"}]}]}