{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 127/1911-12-19/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is astonishing that poets who want to bring to life, out of primeval soul forces in themselves, the memory of some primeval force in a particular sphere sometimes point back to the past in a quite haphazard fashion. This is the case with Wilhelm Jordan.[^3] In his *Nibelungen* he wished to renew the ancient alliterations, and he achieved a remarkable effect as he wandered about like a bard, trying to resurrect the old mode of expression. People did not quite know what to make of it, because nowadays, in this intellectual time of ours, they think of speech as an expression only of meaning. People listen for the content of speech, not the effect that the sentient soul wants to obtain with alliteration, or that the intellectual soul wants to achieve with the end-rhyme. The consciousness soul really can no longer use any kind of rhyme; a poet today must find other devices.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Three Lectures on the Mystery Dramas","date":"1911-12-19","location":null,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-12-19/p034","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-12-19/p034","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-12-19","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 127/1911-12-19/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-12-19/p025"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":183,"en_words":154,"ratio":0.84,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative and this passage's lecture alignment is imperfect. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."}}