concept
Brazen Altars
brazen altars
also: ehernen Altäre, brazen altar
Ancient sacrificial altars made of bronze, invoked in Grodek as an ironic image recasting the battlefield as a site of ritual slaughter. In Trakl's apostrophe, they are fed by spiritual pain and the lives of the unborn rather than by blood offerings.
Reading notes
- Grodek §1 brazen altars
An invocation of ancient sacrificial altars made of bronze; here they ironically figure the battlefields as sites of ritual slaughter, fed by the pain of the unborn rather than by blood offerings.