Gottfried Benn: Untergrundbahn (1917)
Gottfried Benn is one of the most important German-speaking poets of the 20th century and his work is so heterogeneous that it cannot be allocated to a single literary period or current. The poem Untergrundbahn can be ascribed to Expressionism. It is an inner monologue of a male lyrical subject, who...
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| description | Gottfried Benn is one of the most important German-speaking poets of the 20th century and his work is so heterogeneous that it cannot be allocated to a single literary period or current. The poem Untergrundbahn can be ascribed to Expressionism. It is an inner monologue of a male lyrical subject, who speaks about a once-only, fleeting encounter with an unknown woman. The text is less focused on the outer reality – the city and the subway – but more on mental, psychic processes in the subject, especially his sexual desire, which is the central value in the literary system of classical modernism. |
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