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The Laments
the Laments
also: die Klagen, a Lament
In the Tenth Elegy a once-great, now vanished race of personified Laments who people the Land of Pain; a young Lament leads the newly dead youth through their country and names its constellations of grief.
Reading notes
- Duino Elegies §10 She is a Lament
The personified Laments (Klagen), a once-great vanished race who people the Land of Pain and lead the newly dead through their country of grief.