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"" ( German for "love death") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera by Richard Wagner. When used as a literary term, (from German , love and , death) refers to the theme of erotic death or "love death" meaning the two lovers' consummation of their love in death or after death. Other two-sided examples include Pyramus and Thisbe, Romeo and Juliet, and to some degree Wuthering Heights. One-sided examples are Porphyria's Lover and The Sorrows of Young Werther. The joint suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and lover is often associated with the theme.
The aria is the climactic end of the opera as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body.
Usage examples of "liebestod".
Sonnets: - Sonnet I - - Sonnet II - - Sonnet III - - Sonnet IV - - Sonnet V - - Sonnet VI - - Sonnet VII - - Sonnet VIII - - Sonnet IX - - Sonnet X - - Sonnet XI - - Sonnet XII - Bellinglise Liebestod Resurgam A Message to America Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France Introduction by William Archer This book contains the undesigned, but all the more spontaneous and authentic, biography of a very rare spirit.
But this time it is a nuptial darkness whose solemnity is marred by no caterwaulings, no Liebestods, no saxophones pleading for detumescence.