person
Orpheus
also: Orpheus, Orpheus und Eurydike
Greek mythological poet-musician whose singing could move stones and trees; he descended to Hades to recover his wife Eurydice. In Trakl, the Orphic resonance attaches to music, loss, and the lure of the underworld.
Reading notes
- Sebastian in Dream §36 Orpheus
Orpheus, the mythic Greek musician who descended to Hades to reclaim Eurydice; in 'Passion' he laments 'a dead thing in the evening garden,' merging the classical descent-myth with Trakl's recurring figure of the dead beloved.