Georg Heyms "Der Gott der Stadt" - Ein Kommentar

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject German Studies - Modern German Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Kent (School of German), event: The Lyric Imagination, language: German, abstract: Georg Heym's "The God of the City" is one of the poems that disappoint the expectation of continuity raised by the title of their poetry collection "The Last Day" with gloomy doomsday scenarios, and, along with "The Demons of Cities", the "Berlin" poems or "The Suburbs", depicts life in a metropolis. As a work of early expressionism, "The God of the City" is of course influenced by other motifs, including the non-mimetic depiction of reality, the longing for ruin as a precursor to a new image of man, and the mastery of nature thanks to technical progress. This context hinted at here forms the framework for the following coming.