Abstract
The article aims at describing the poem “An die Melancholie”(1871) as an essential and crucial moment within the development of Nietzsche’s philosophy, which refers to the first intuition of the notion of “Will to Power”. The philosopher deviates from the long German tradition of odes to melancholy, whilst subverting the philosophical poems of his own time - specially the Darwinian ones -, in order to overcome his Schopenhauerian pessimism.
Keywords:
Poetry; Will to Power; Pessimism; Prometheus; Henri Cazalis (1840-1909); Anatole France (1844-1924)