person
Endymion
also: Endymion
In Greek myth, a beautiful shepherd whom the moon-goddess Selene loved and put into an eternal sleep so she could visit him nightly. In Trakl's Evening Muse (Gedichte, section 14), Endymion emerges from old oaks at dusk and bends over sorrowful waters — a figure of eternal dreaming.
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- Poems §14 Endymion
In Greek myth, Endymion was a beautiful shepherd cast into an eternal sleep by the goddess Selene (the moon), who loved him. He became a symbol of passive, dreamlike beauty untouched by time — fitting Trakl's imagery of the preserved, unconscious beloved.