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In Chapter V of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche presents many different ideas and gives us arguments for each of them. He explains to us subjectivity and objectivity, and the question of which art forms should be filed under which category mentioned. One of his main focuses in this chapter is lyric poetry. Nietzsche attempts to both understand himself and help us understand how a lyric poem should be classified. Nietzsche tells us that “the lyrical poet, on the other hand, becomes his images, his images are objectified versions of himself . Being the active center of that world he may boldly speak in first person...” (Nietzsche 39). Therefore, it becomes clear that lyrical poets clearly use objectivity in their poems. They use the word “I” as if it were not just man, but in a much deeper sense. When the poet uses “I” it is as if he is “the ground of being” as Nietzsche calls it. The ground of being is the eternal Oneness lying deep within all of us. One still cannot help but think that the lyrical poet is slightly subjective in some way, however. One of the first lyric poets, Archilochus, is disliked by Nietzsche for his constant subjective statements in his poems. When “I” is constantly used to recite the passions and appetites of the writer, it clearly has some subjective aspects. Schopenhauer is an author similar to Nietzsche, who wrote The World as Will and Idea, and who attempted to answer the same question about lyric poetry. He states that the lines in lyric poems represent the willing of the author, and therefore can clearly be seen as subjective. Nietzsche, however, disagrees with this and soon criticizes Schopenhauer and anyone else who attempts to classify lyric poetry under only one of the categories.
Approximate Word count = 1167
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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