2017-07-09

【Aiden in English】

        The city of music. Home country to Mozart. The great invention of the waltz. Center of classical music. The résumé sounds nice, but I want to listen to something else. Something musical. Something amazing. A show. A show in the city of Vienna, the center of classical music, the place where Mozart played, and the most important classical music position on earth.

        The Mozart

2017-07-09

【The Rats】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

         In the yard, the autumn moon shines white,

         The roof-edge drops fantastic shadows;

         Silence dwells in the empty windows

         From which the rats now quietly plunge

  &n

2017-07-09

【Birth】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

     These mountains: blackness, silence, and snow.

     The red hunter climbs down from the forest;

     Oh the mossy gaze of the wild thing.

     The peace of the mother: under black firs

     The sleeping hands open by themselves

    &nb

2017-07-09

【Aiden in English】

        The capital city of Vienna is probably the most famous place on our itinerary of Danube Castles and Legends. I've heard about it, you've known about it, mom has seen it, celebrities want to live here, etc. However, Vienna's fame was built on musical notes, performances, and composers. A long history of music in this part of the world has inspired popular worldwide concerts that pretty much have come to defi

2017-07-08

【Winter Evening】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

            When snow falls against the window,

          Long sounds the evening bell...

          For so many has the table

          Been prepared, the house set in order.

           &n

2017-07-08

【Sleep】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

         Not your dark poisons again,

         White sleep!

         This fantastically strange garden

         Of trees in deepening twilight

         Fills up with serpents, night moths,

        &

2017-07-08

【Mourning】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

        The dark eagles, sleep and death,

        Rustle all night around my head:

        The golden statue of a man

        Is swallowed by the icy comber

        Of eternity. On the frightening reef

        The purple

2017-07-08

【Aiden in English】

        Viking River Cruises are quite the adult ones. They mainly have formal meals, bars for recreation, libraries, and lounges, which is very different from an ocean ship targeting a younger age group. Therefore, this trip could not be complete without a large portion of alcohol.

        You know what? Wine isn't anything special. To put it simply, wine is crushed grape juice with

2017-07-07

【Grodek】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

     In the evening the autumnal forests resound

     With deadly weapons, the golden plains

     And blue lakes, above them the sun

     Rolls more darkly by; night enfolds

     The dying warriors, the wild lament

     Of their broken mouths.

     But in the grassy vale, the spilled blo

2017-07-06

【On the Eastern Front】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

            The winter storm's mad organ playing

            is like the Volk's dark fury,

            the black-red tidal wave of the onslaught,

            defoliated stars.

2017-07-05

【The Evening】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

            With the ghostly shapes of dead heroes

            Moon, you fill

            The growing silence of the forest,

            Sickle-moon—

2017-07-05

【The Mood of Depression】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

       You dark mouth inside me,

       You are strong, shape

       Composed of autumn clouds,

       And golden evening stillness;

       In the shadows thrown

       By the broken pine trees

       A

2017-07-05

【In Venice】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

         Stillness in the passing night of the room.

         Seven silver branches flicker

         before the whispered song

         of the deserted,

         the mystic flock of roses.

       &nb

2017-07-05

【Aiden in English】

        The Sound of Music is probably the greatest American musical movie ever produced. In fact, it in general has accomplished feats only a few movies have done in Hollywood. And no one knows why the movie was that successful. Perhaps, most of it was filmed in Salzburg, Austria.

        Austria isn't the first place one would think of paradise, but only today I did realize how amaz

2017-07-04

【Heart】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

        The wild heart grew white in the forest;

        Dark anxiety

        Of death, as when the gold

        Died in the grey cloud.

        An evening in November.

        A crowd of needy women stood at the bare gate

&

2017-07-04

【At the Moor】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

     Wanderer in the blackened wind. Dry reeds whisper

     in the stillness of the moor. A column of savage birds

     ensues in the dawning sky.

     Over murky waters, they cross.

     Uproar. From the crumbling shack

     the black

2017-07-04

【Aiden in English】

        Living in the Greater Philadelphia Area, you get a little of everything. From a blazing heatwave to a meter of snow, a person who lives in that area gets a good overall sight of the weather. But as I continued to travel, I discovered the far ends of the spectrum. The Sahara Desert is much more than the hottest days in little Montgomery County. The Amazon rainforests are also a tad bit more humid than the Pennsylvanian

2017-07-04

【The Sun】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

        Each day the yellow sun rises over the hill.

        The woods glow, the dark beast,

        Man: hunter or shepherd.

        Blood-fish surface in the teeming pond.

        Under

2017-07-04

【Trumpets】

Georg Trakl (1887—1914)

    Under the trimmed willows, where brown children are playing

     And leaves tumbling, the trumpets blow. A quaking of cemeteries.

     Banners of scarlet rattle through the sadness of maple trees,

     Riders along rye-fields, empty mills.

     Or shepherds sing during the night, and stags step delic

2017-07-04

【Swan】

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875—1926)

         This toiling at tasks that remain to be done,

         this trudging as if bound, in a heavy way,

         is like the ungainly gait of the swan.

         And dying, the time we no longer grip

&n

2017-07-03

【Aiden in English】

        New city, new country, therefore new culture... sort of. It's always interesting to see new worlds in person, and the differences between countries are always surprising at first. However, when the border doesn't even require a passport check to cross, it really shows the similarities between the two countries. Which countries am I talking about?

        Austria and German