Editing Georg Trakl (section)

==Themes and motifs==
While Trakl's very earliest poems are more philosophical and do not deal as much with the real world, most of his poems are either set in the evening or have evening as a motif.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Brown |first=Russell E. |date=January 1969 |title=Time of Day in Early Expressionist Poetry |journal=PMLA |publisher=Modern Language Association |volume=84 |issue=1 |pages=20–28 }}</ref> Silence is also a frequent motif in Trakl's poetry, and his later poems often feature the silent dead, who are unable to express themselves.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lyon |first=James K.. |date=Winter 1970 |title=Georg Trakl's Poetry of Silence |journal=Monatshefte |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=340–356 }}</ref>