Andrew Blaeser,
Abby Williams,
And even Jack
Dugdale!
I wish I knew the meaning,
A sadness has fallen on me.
The ghost of an ancient legend
That will not let me be.
The air is cool in the twilight
And gently flows the Rhine;
A mountain peak in the setting sun
Catches the faltering shine.
The highest peak still gleaming
Reveals enthroned in the air,
A Siren lost in her dreaming
Combing her golden hair.
With golden combs she caresses
Her hair as she sings her song;
THE
LORELEI
Echoing through the gloaming
Filled with a magic so strong.
The boatman has heard, it has
bound him
In throes of desire and love.
He's blind to the reefs that
surround him,
He sees but the Maiden above.
And now the wild waters
awaken
Then boat and the boatman
are gone.
And this is what with her
singing,
The Lorelei has done.
The Lorelei Theme
 The theme of this poem is destruction of beauty, due
to the Lorelei. The Lorelei uses the sea, which is
supposed to be beautiful and part of nature, and turns
it into a monstrous killer. She combines her beauty
and the sea to lure sailors into crashing into the rocks.
HEINRICH
HEIN
.
Heinrich Heine was one of the most
influential German poets of the 19th
century. He is best know outside German
for his lyric poetry. His radical political
views led to many of his works being
banned by German authorities.
Girl with golden hair and a golden voice
sits on top of the rock and sings causing
old sailors of Germany to crash into the
rocks, making this rock a symbol for a
place in Germany and for heinrich’s poem
POEMS BY HEINRICH HEIN
 Dialogue on the Paderborn Heath
 Geoffry Rudel and Melisanda of Tripoll
 Goethe's Monument at Frankfort-On The-Main,
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1821.
Halle
In Port
Princess Ilse
The Hostile Brothers
The Lorelei
Journal Questionnaire
Is there something that you
want?
Is something luring it to you?
Tell Andrew,Jack, and Abby your answers after you
write them on your own paper.
Romantic Elements
Looking for something lost
Explains how he feels with the twilight
Talks about hair being combs of gold
metaphorically
Concerned about the waves destroying his ship
Idealistic about how beautiful the air flows into the
Mountains.
Looks towards the beauty of the skies
The Lorelei Rhyme Scheme
 Rhyme Scheme of The Lorelei
 Abab
 Cdcd
 Efef
 Ghgh
 Ijij
 Klkl
MY OPINION
I don’t really have a strong opinion of this poem. I don’t
not like it but I don’t really say “wow! I love this poem”!
or “I hate this poem”! But that is MY
MY opinion!
ONLY
ABBY’s
OPINION!
Abby William’s
thinks that this
poem is AWESOME
JACK’s
OPINION
Jack says that he thinks that the
poem is great and is full of details
that makes him emotional.
ALL OF OUR
OPINION AS A
GROUP
We all think
that this poem
Is great!
Our life experience
This relates to a life experience
very strongly in this way.
In crab fishing because I watch
Deadliest Catch, there have
been several crab fishing vessels
that crashed into mountains on
small islands and were trapped.
Hidden Literary devices
 Anastophie
 Cool is the air in the twilight
 End rhyme in lines in stanzas
 Lines 1 and 3:
 Lines 2 and 4
THANKS FOR
WATCHING THIS
POEM
PRESENTATION!!!