Fates Warning - Disconnected, Part 2

At this time, he caught the eye of an old poem about the singers' tournament in the Wartburg castle on a mountain in the Thuringian forest. “That purely“ Germanic ”element, which I was irresistibly attracted to and which I was particularly passionate about trying to catch, immediately struck me in a simple folk tale built on an old song about Tannhäuser ... In ... the journal book I found as a continuation of the“ Wartburg competition ” critical essay on the poem about Lohengrin with a summary of its content. An entirely new world has risen before me (italics ours. From now on, this world will never let Wagner go ever again. - M. Z.). If I have not yet found the form I need, then the new image in any case is imprinted in my soul. So later, when I became acquainted with the various versions of the legend of Lohengrin, this figure decided for me with the same clarity,with which the figure of Tannhäuser was now outlined. Under the influence of such impressions, the urge to return to Germany grew uncontrollably in order to surrender to the new conquest of my homeland in complete calmness of my work.