{"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":"todeserfahrung","title":{"source":"Todeserfahrung","translated":"Experience of Death"},"section":"New Poems","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/todeserfahrung","lines":20},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/abschied","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/blaue-hortensie","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":"todeserfahrung-s1-l1","source":"Wir wissen nichts von diesem Hingehn, das","translation":"We know nothing of this going-hence, which","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Hingehn","title":"An infinitive used as a euphemism","body":"Hingehn is the infinitive of hingehen, 'to go away, pass on', used here as a neuter noun and euphemism for dying. diesem Hingehn, dative after von, means 'this going-hence'."},{"kind":"grammar","term":"das","title":"A relative pronoun spanning lines","body":"das is a neuter relative pronoun referring back to Hingehn, 'going-hence'. Its clause continues into the next line, where das is the subject of teilt, 'shares': 'this going-hence, which does not share itself with us'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on wissen","gloss":"We"},{"surface":"wissen","lemma":"wissen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"know"},{"surface":"nichts","lemma":"nichts","morphology":"pronoun, neuter","role":"depends on wissen","gloss":"nothing"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on nichts","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"diesem","lemma":"dieser","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Hingehn","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"Hingehn","lemma":"Hingehn","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"going-hence","note":"\"Hingehn\" (from hingehen, \"to go away/pass on\") is used as a euphemism for dying."},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular, relative","role":"subject of teilt","gloss":"which"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"todeserfahrung-s1-l2","source":"nicht mit uns teilt. Wir haben keinen Grund,","translation":"does not share itself with us. We have no ground,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"mit uns teilt","title":"Sharing itself with us","body":"teilen mit means 'to share with'; here it is used reflexively in sense, though without sich, meaning the going-hence does not disclose or communicate itself to us. nicht mit uns teilt means 'does not share [itself] with us'."}],"words":[{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on teilt","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on teilt","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"us"},{"surface":"teilt","lemma":"teilen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"shares"},{"surface":"Wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on haben","gloss":"We"},{"surface":"haben","lemma":"haben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"have"},{"surface":"keinen","lemma":"kein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Grund","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"Grund","lemma":"Grund","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on haben","gloss":"ground"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"todeserfahrung-s1-l3","source":"Bewunderung und Liebe oder Haß","translation":"admiration and love or hatred","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Haß","title":"The old spelling of hatred","body":"der Haß means 'hatred', spelled with the old ß rather than modern ss. It is coordinated with Bewunderung, 'admiration', Liebe, 'love', by oder, listing the feelings we might show death but do not, since death cannot receive them."}],"words":[{"surface":"Bewunderung","lemma":"Bewunderung","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"object of zeigen","gloss":"admiration"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Bewunderung","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Liebe","lemma":"Liebe","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"love"},{"surface":"oder","lemma":"oder","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Liebe","gloss":"or"},{"surface":"Haß","lemma":"Haß","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on oder","gloss":"hatred"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"todeserfahrung-s1-l4","source":"dem Tod zu zeigen, den ein Maskenmund","translation":"to show to death, whom a masked mouth","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"dem Tod zu zeigen","title":"A dative recipient for showing","body":"zeigen takes a dative person and an accusative thing: dem Tod, 'to death', is the dative recipient. dem Tod zu zeigen means 'to show to death', completing the sentence's earlier statement that we have no ground for admiration, love, or hatred to show it."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Maskenmund","title":"A compound for a masked mouth","body":"Maskenmund is a compound of Maske, 'mask', and Mund, 'mouth', naming a mouth fixed in a mask's frozen expression. ein Maskenmund is the subject of entstellt, 'distorts', in the next line."}],"words":[{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Tod","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Tod","lemma":"Tod","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on zeigen","gloss":"death"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on zeigen","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"zeigen","lemma":"zeigen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"show"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular, relative","role":"object of entstellt","gloss":"whom"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Maskenmund","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Maskenmund","lemma":"Maskenmund","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"masked mouth"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"todeserfahrung-s2-l1","source":"tragischer Klage wunderlich entstellt.","translation":"strangely distorts with tragic lament.","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"entstellt","title":"The verb for distorting","body":"entstellen means 'to distort, disfigure'; entstellt is its third-person present form. tragischer Klage... entstellt means '[a masked mouth] distorts [death] with tragic lament', with tragischer Klage dative, the means by which the distortion happens."}],"words":[{"surface":"tragischer","lemma":"tragisch","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Klage","gloss":"tragic"},{"surface":"Klage","lemma":"Klage","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on entstellt","gloss":"lament"},{"surface":"wunderlich","lemma":"wunderlich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on entstellt","gloss":"strangely"},{"surface":"entstellt","lemma":"entstellen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"distorts"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"todeserfahrung-s2-l2","source":"Noch ist die Welt voll Rollen, die wir spielen.","translation":"The world is still full of roles that we play.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Noch ist die Welt","title":"An adverb inverting the word order","body":"Noch, 'still', opens the sentence, so the verb ist follows immediately and the subject die Welt comes after it: normal order would be Die Welt ist noch. voll Rollen means 'full of roles', with Rollen genitive after voll."}],"words":[{"surface":"Noch","lemma":"noch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"still"},{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Welt","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Welt","lemma":"Welt","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"world"},{"surface":"voll","lemma":"voll","morphology":"adjective, predicate","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"full"},{"surface":"Rollen","lemma":"Rolle","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, plural","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"roles"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, feminine, plural, relative","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"spielen","lemma":"spielen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the relative clause","gloss":"play"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"todeserfahrung-s2-l3","source":"Solang wir sorgen, ob wir auch gefielen,","translation":"As long as we fret whether we, too, pleased,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Solang wir sorgen","title":"Subordinating as long as","body":"Solang means 'as long as', introducing a subordinate clause whose verb, sorgen, 'fret, worry', comes at the end. ob wir auch gefielen means 'whether we too pleased', a second subordinate clause nested inside the first."}],"words":[{"surface":"Solang","lemma":"solang","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on sorgen","gloss":"As long as"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on sorgen","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"sorgen","lemma":"sorgen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"fret"},{"surface":"ob","lemma":"ob","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on gefielen","gloss":"whether"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on gefielen","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"auch","lemma":"auch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on gefielen","gloss":"too"},{"surface":"gefielen","lemma":"gefallen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"depends on sorgen","gloss":"pleased"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"todeserfahrung-s2-l4","source":"spielt auch der Tod, obwohl er nicht gefällt.","translation":"death too goes on playing, though it does not please.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"gefällt","title":"Two verbs sharing one form","body":"gefällt here is the third-person present of gefallen, 'to please', not of fällen, 'to fell, cut down', though the two verbs share this form. obwohl er nicht gefällt means 'though it does not please', referring back to der Tod, 'death'."}],"words":[{"surface":"spielt","lemma":"spielen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"plays"},{"surface":"auch","lemma":"auch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Tod","gloss":"too"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Tod","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Tod","lemma":"Tod","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on spielt","gloss":"death"},{"surface":"obwohl","lemma":"obwohl","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on gefällt","gloss":"though"},{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on gefällt","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on gefällt","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"gefällt","lemma":"gefallen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on spielt","gloss":"pleases","note":"\"gefällt\" here is from gefallen (\"to please\"), not fällen (\"to fell/cut down\") — the two verbs share this form."}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"todeserfahrung-s3-l1","source":"Doch als du gingst, da brach in diese Bühne","translation":"But when you went, there broke onto this stage","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"als du gingst","title":"als meaning when, normal order","body":"als here introduces a past-time clause meaning 'when'. du gingst is the second-person past tense of gehen, 'to go'. Unlike als gingst du fehl earlier in this batch, here the clause has normal word order because als, not the comparison itself, does the subordinating."}],"words":[{"surface":"Doch","lemma":"doch","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on brach","gloss":"But"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on gingst","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"du","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on gingst","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"gingst","lemma":"gehen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, second-person, singular","role":"depends on da","gloss":"went"},{"surface":"da","lemma":"da","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on brach","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"brach","lemma":"brechen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"broke"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on brach","gloss":"onto"},{"surface":"diese","lemma":"dieser","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Bühne","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"Bühne","lemma":"Bühne","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"stage"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"todeserfahrung-s3-l2","source":"ein Streifen Wirklichkeit durch jenen Spalt,","translation":"a strip of reality through that crack,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ein Streifen Wirklichkeit","title":"A strip of something abstract","body":"der Streifen means 'a strip, a stripe'. Wirklichkeit, 'reality', follows it in the genitive without an article, a compact construction meaning 'a strip of reality', suggesting reality showing only in a narrow band through a crack."}],"words":[{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Streifen","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Streifen","lemma":"Streifen","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"strip"},{"surface":"Wirklichkeit","lemma":"Wirklichkeit","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Streifen","gloss":"of reality"},{"surface":"durch","lemma":"durch","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on brach","gloss":"through"},{"surface":"jenen","lemma":"jener","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Spalt","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"Spalt","lemma":"Spalt","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on durch","gloss":"crack"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"todeserfahrung-s3-l3","source":"durch den du hingingst: Grün wirklicher Grüne,","translation":"through which you went out: green of real greenness,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"hingingst","title":"Past tense of going away","body":"hingingst is the second-person singular past tense of hingehen, 'to go away, depart', a compound of hin-, 'away, thither', and gehen, 'to go'. durch den du hingingst means 'through which you went away'."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Grün wirklicher Grüne","title":"An abstract noun made from an adjective","body":"Grün, 'green', names the color; wirklicher Grüne, genitive, means 'of real greenness', with Grüne as an abstract noun formed from grün, 'green'. Grün wirklicher Grüne means 'green of real greenness', a green more intense than what is usually seen."}],"words":[{"surface":"durch","lemma":"durch","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on hingingst","gloss":"through"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular, relative","role":"depends on durch","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"du","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on hingingst","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"hingingst","lemma":"hingehen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"went"},{"surface":"Grün","lemma":"Grün","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"green"},{"surface":"wirklicher","lemma":"wirklich","morphology":"adjective, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Grüne","gloss":"real"},{"surface":"Grüne","lemma":"Grüne","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Grün","gloss":"greenness"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"todeserfahrung-s3-l4","source":"wirklicher Sonnenschein, wirklicher Wald.","translation":"real sunshine, real forest.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"wirklicher","lemma":"wirklich","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Sonnenschein","gloss":"real"},{"surface":"Sonnenschein","lemma":"Sonnenschein","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"sunshine"},{"surface":"wirklicher","lemma":"wirklich","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Wald","gloss":"real"},{"surface":"Wald","lemma":"Wald","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Sonnenschein","gloss":"forest"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"todeserfahrung-s4-l1","source":"Wir spielen weiter. Bang und schwer Erlerntes","translation":"We go on playing. Anxiously reciting things","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"spielen weiter","title":"A separable verb, prefix detached","body":"weiterspielen means 'to go on playing, continue playing', a separable verb; weiter detaches and moves to the end of the clause: Wir spielen weiter means 'We go on playing'."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Erlerntes","title":"A participle turned into a noun","body":"erlernt is the past participle of erlernen, 'to learn thoroughly, master'; Erlerntes, capitalized, turns it into a neuter noun, 'things learned, learned material'. Bang und schwer describes the manner: 'anxiously and laboriously'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"We"},{"surface":"spielen","lemma":"spielen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"play"},{"surface":"weiter","lemma":"weiter","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"Bang","lemma":"bang","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hersagend","gloss":"anxiously"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Bang","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"schwer","lemma":"schwer","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hersagend","gloss":"laboriously"},{"surface":"Erlerntes","lemma":"erlernt","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on hersagend","gloss":"things learned"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"todeserfahrung-s4-l2","source":"hersagend und Gebärden dann und wann","translation":"learned with effort, and now and then taking up","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"hersagend","title":"The participle for reciting by rote","body":"hersagen means 'to recite, say by rote', from sagen, 'to say', with the prefix her-. hersagend is its present participle, describing the ongoing act of reciting Erlerntes, 'things learned', from the line before."}],"words":[{"surface":"hersagend","lemma":"hersagen","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"reciting"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on hersagend","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Gebärden","lemma":"Gebärde","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on aufhebend","gloss":"gestures"},{"surface":"dann","lemma":"dann","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on aufhebend","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on dann","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"wann","lemma":"wann","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on und","gloss":"then"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"todeserfahrung-s4-l3","source":"aufhebend; aber dein von uns entferntes,","translation":"gestures; but your being, removed from us,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"aufhebend","title":"A participle for taking up","body":"aufheben here means 'to take up, pick up' (though the same verb elsewhere means 'to lift' or 'to cancel'); aufhebend is its present participle. It joins hersagend to describe two things done at once: reciting learned lines and taking up gestures."}],"words":[{"surface":"aufhebend","lemma":"aufheben","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"taking up"},{"surface":"aber","lemma":"aber","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on kann","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"dein","lemma":"dein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Dasein","gloss":"your"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on entferntes","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on von","gloss":"us"},{"surface":"entferntes","lemma":"entfernt","morphology":"adjective, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Dasein","gloss":"removed"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"todeserfahrung-s4-l4","source":"aus unserm Stück entrücktes Dasein kann","translation":"withdrawn from our play, your existence can","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Stück","title":"A play, not a piece","body":"das Stück here means 'a play, a piece of theater', not 'a piece' in the general sense. aus unserm Stück means 'out of our play', naming the performance that dein Dasein, 'your existence', has been withdrawn from."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Dasein","title":"A noun built from being there","body":"das Dasein means 'existence, being', from da, 'there', plus sein, 'to be', literally 'being there'. It is the grammatical subject of kann, 'can', continuing into the next line with the verb überkommen, 'come over'."}],"words":[{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on entrücktes","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"unserm","lemma":"unser","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Stück","gloss":"our"},{"surface":"Stück","lemma":"Stück","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"play"},{"surface":"entrücktes","lemma":"entrückt","morphology":"adjective, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Dasein","gloss":"withdrawn"},{"surface":"Dasein","lemma":"Dasein","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on kann","gloss":"existence"},{"surface":"kann","lemma":"können","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"can"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"todeserfahrung-s5-l1","source":"uns manchmal überkommen, wie ein Wissen","translation":"sometimes come over us, like a knowledge","stanza":5,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s5-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"überkommen","title":"Coming over someone, like a feeling","body":"überkommen means 'to come over, overtake, seize (a feeling)', used here as the infinitive completing kann, 'can': kann... überkommen means 'can come over [us]'. wie ein Wissen, 'like a knowledge', describes the manner in which it happens."}],"words":[{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on überkommen","gloss":"us"},{"surface":"manchmal","lemma":"manchmal","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on überkommen","gloss":"sometimes"},{"surface":"überkommen","lemma":"überkommen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on kann","gloss":"come over"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on Wissen","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Wissen","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Wissen","lemma":"Wissen","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on überkommen","gloss":"knowledge"}]},{"number":18,"label":"18","id":"todeserfahrung-s5-l2","source":"von jener Wirklichkeit sich niedersenkend,","translation":"of that reality, sinking down,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s5-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"sich niedersenkend","title":"A reflexive participle for sinking down","body":"sich niedersenken means 'to sink down, settle downward'. niedersenkend is its present participle, describing dein... Dasein as it sinks down von jener Wirklichkeit, 'from that reality', into the players' awareness."}],"words":[{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on niedersenkend","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"jener","lemma":"jener","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Wirklichkeit","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"Wirklichkeit","lemma":"Wirklichkeit","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"reality"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on niedersenkend","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"niedersenkend","lemma":"niedersenken","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"depends on Wissen","gloss":"sinking down"}]},{"number":19,"label":"19","id":"todeserfahrung-s5-l3","source":"so daß wir eine Weile hingerissen","translation":"so that for a while, carried away,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s5-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"so daß","title":"Subordinating a result clause","body":"so daß means 'so that', introducing a clause of result rather than purpose: it states what follows from something, not what someone intends. Its verb, spielen, arrives two lines later, after hingerissen, 'carried away'."}],"words":[{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hingerissen","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"daß","lemma":"daß","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on hingerissen","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on hingerissen","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"eine","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Weile","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Weile","lemma":"Weile","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on hingerissen","gloss":"while"},{"surface":"hingerissen","lemma":"hinreißen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"carried away"}]},{"number":20,"label":"20","id":"todeserfahrung-s5-l4","source":"das Leben spielen, nicht an Beifall denkend.","translation":"we play life itself, not thinking of applause.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/todeserfahrung-s5-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"an Beifall denkend","title":"A participle with its object placed first","body":"denken an etwas means 'to think of/about something'; here it appears as a present participle, denkend, with its object, an Beifall, 'of applause', placed before it. nicht an Beifall denkend means 'not thinking of applause'."}],"words":[{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Leben","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Leben","lemma":"Leben","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"life"},{"surface":"spielen","lemma":"spielen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"play"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on denkend","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on denkend","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"Beifall","lemma":"Beifall","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on an","gloss":"applause"},{"surface":"denkend","lemma":"denken","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"depends on spielen","gloss":"thinking"}]}]}