person
Ivan Mazepa
Mazeppa
also: Mazeppa
Ivan Mazepa (1639--1709), hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks; the Romantic legend of the young Mazeppa bound to a wild horse (via Byron and Hugo) lies behind Rilke's storm-vision.
Reading notes
- The Book of Images §41 Mazeppa
Ivan Mazepa, hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks; the Romantic legend (Byron, Hugo) of the young Mazeppa lashed face-up to a galloping horse lies behind the 'horizontal neck' of the storm-rider.