Abstract
The encounter with a poem simultaneously involves finding answers to central questions: What sort of experience does the poem present; and how does the poem express this experience? The following observations on Schlaflos offer answers to these questions, answers which are discoverable entirely within the poem itself. For, as one critic puts it: Der Dichter ist ganz allein mit seiner Sprache. Hier hat er seine Heimat und seine Freiheit, um den Preis, daB3 man ihn ebenso gut verstehen wie nicht verstehen kann.2 The perceptive studies by Fritz Martini, Peter Spycher, and Horst Jarka have already shown that certain of Theodor Storm's poems can be understood very well.3
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