The sign of the rose: Vaughan, Rilke, Celan

Comparative Literature | July 1, 1997| | Copyright

What hallow'd solitary ground did bear

So rare a flower,

Within whose sacred leafs did lie

The fulness of the Deity.

Henry Vaughan, "The Night" (522)

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy

of being No-one's sleep under so many

lids.

R.M. Rilke, "Rose, oh pure contradiction"

(Selected Poetry 279)

A nothing

we were, are, shall

remain, flowering;

the nothing-, the

no one's rose.

Paul Celan, "Psalm" (Poems 143)

NEARLY 300 YEARS separate Rilke's rose from Vaughan's flower; less than 40, Celan's rose from Rilke's. But while the poetic distance between the former two could not be greater, ...

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