Zarathustra's roundelay explained

Zarathustra's roundelay,^[1] also called the Midnight Song (Mitternachts-Lied) or Once More,^[2] is a poem in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche.

The poem first appears in Thus Spoke Zarathustra's chapter "The Second Dance-Song", then reappears in a later chapter, "The Drunken Song".

The poem was used by Gustav Mahler as the text of the 4th movement of his Symphony No 3.

Selected English translations

Alexander Tille

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Thomas Common

See also

• Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God is dead
  • Apollonian and Dionysian

Further reading

• Book: Hollinrake, Roger . Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism . Routledge . 1982 . 978-0-203-09270-5 . en . 6. Zarathustra’s Roundelay . 10.4324/9780203092705.

External links

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Notes and References

1. Book: Hollinrake, Roger . Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism . Routledge . 1982 . 978-0-203-09270-5 . 92 . en . 7. Zarathustra’s Great Noon . 10.4324/9780203092705.
2. Puffett . Derrick . 1998 . A Nietzschean Libretto: Delius and the Text for 'A Mass of Life' . Music & Letters . 79 . 2 . 244–267 . 10.1093/ml/79.2.244 . 0027-4224 . 854955.
3. Book: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm . Thus spake Zarathustra: a book for all and none . 1899 . T. Fisher Unwin . The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche . II . London . 339–40, 483.