The Interpretive Structure for the Said Poems
September 1941
1. The interpretation of “Remembrance” provides the foundation and orientation, and the perspectives for all that follows.
The fundamental attunement of the thinking poet. Thanking.
2. In the interpretation of “Remembrance” itself, the elucidation of the first two strophes and the transition to the third are essential.
To be shown here: Hölderlin’s thinking of history. Historicality and the festival. The poetic dwelling of humans. The encountering of humans and gods. The demigod. The poet.
The free use of one’s own.
Grounding in the homely.
The necessity of preparation. Learning in the “dialogue.”
3. Everywhere already point ahead to essential connections within the said poems.
Thus before the interpretation of these poems, that which has been founded, as founded in the hymns, must stand openly manifest within the time-space of its reign. Only thus can the word of interpretation become an appropriate one in its finer details.