Lay your shadow on the sundials. Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr Herbsttag – R.M. Rilke Sometimes when translating a poem, confronted with a vain attempt to cater for too many formal considerations at once, it is better to retire, regroup and go for a half-solution, in the hope that some of the ideas can subsequently be incorporated into a later assault on the mission impossible ∀∀∀∀ ∀ ∀∀∀∀∀ ∀∀∀∀ ∀ Rilke's Herbsttag and Trakl's Grodek Brian O. Murdoch The study of lyric poetry in