Georg Heym. The poet who saw Berlin in flames in 1911.

Abstract

The main objective of the essay is to offer an overview of some of the most representative poems of the German expressionist poet Georg Heym (1887-1912), who lived in Germany at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, not even reaching 30 years of age. of life. Notwithstanding the foregoing, his poetic legacy was rich and significant enough to be considered one of the greatest poets in the German language in the history of his letters, who also envisioned with great precision the catastrophe that hung over Europe and would become a reality during the first half of the 20th century. Due to the above, the text presents precisely some poems that account in their content for images and scenes that would be to come, that is, before they became factual facts as part of the historical and sociocultural imaginary period of the time (Zeitgeist). in which both language and literature were affected and impacted by the atmosphere that permeated nationalism and fascism. The way in which the exposition of this essay proceeds is simply putting in the eyes of the reader, some of these poems mentioned for their enjoyment and knowledge of what is affirmed as a testimony in question from their reading.