Die Kraniche des Ibykus
The Cranes of Ibycus is a ballad by Friedrich Schiller in 1797, which plays in the 6th century BC. The ballad was first published in Schiller Musenalmanach for the year 1798.
Content
Action
The ballad is based, as in Schiller often, on an actual historical event: the assassination of the poet Ibycus. The ballad begins with verses:
To fight the car and chants, The on Corinthus isthmus The Greeks tribes united glad Pulled Ibycus, the gods friend.
The Greek poet Ibycus is murdered on the way to the Isthmian games before Corinth, only one crane migration is a witness. But power of choral singing of Furies in a tragedy during the Isthmian calls one of the perpetrators, as pulling the cranes over the heaven open theater, involuntarily: " Look there Look, Timothy, The Cranes of Ibycus! ", And the whole auditorium recognizes the killer in one fell swoop:
Man pulls and drags it to the judge, The scene is a tribunal, And there confess the bad guys, Taken from Revenge beam.
Analysis
Since this poem is a ballad, it contains elements of all three basic forms of poetry:
- Form: 23 stanzas of 8 verses: 2 pairs and 2 cross rhymes.
- Meter: 4 - hebiger iambic
- Content: song of the Furies
- Epic preterite (part of the 1st verse )
- Historical present
- Told action
- Narrator: He omniscient narrator
- Content: appearance of the Furies
- Literal speech
- Dramatic present tense ( present tense at the same time also Historical )
- Notes on Drama: The scene is a tribunal,
Schiller makes here the effect of the arts in the socio-political area on the subject. He sees the theater as a " moral institution" that can have great educational impact. In this ballad, it shows the effect of a performance at the Greek Theatre: ... reflection Consuming, herzbetörend echoes the Furies singing, | He echoes, the handset cord ... a result of this performance is consuming that one of the perpetrators unmasked himself, the other must disclose, and thus the earthly justice can be worked.