Goethe sees nature and art as appar

Goethe sees nature and art as apparently opposing forces, like magnets that repel each other, only to be attracted to each other again. In the poet, apparent aversion is a stage that is now past – he sees no real opposition between the two.
The basic human path of personal development (Bildung) is seen as being from the freedom of nature (the innocence of childhood) through willing subjection to the rigours of art to a higher form of (adult) freedom. This is a highly common theme in Romantic poetry, for example. Opposed to this is the idea of the human spirit being unwilling to subject itself to the law of art, of choosing licence instead of working for freedom. But this inability to bind oneself cannot lead to any real form of emancipation or liberation. For the true aim of personal development is to attain ‘the perfection of pure elevation’. Belief in the supreme power of individual genius, of unbridled imagination - the fundamentalist side of Romanticism - is rejected in the poem.
English has no one term that can satisfactorily translate ‘Bildung’. It has many meanings, but one of the crucial ones is personal ‘forming’ or ‘shaping’. It can also refer to the result of this process.
Note that Goethe does not use the word 'Kultur' - this operates at a higher level than the individual.
The basic message of the poem is that you have to observe the laws, gain mastery of them, before you are allowed to go beyond them. Goethe is well over his 'Sturm und Drang' phase. The poem was written in 1800.

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The sonnet has to baroque model two quartets and two trios. The
verses are written throughout in five-hebigen iambs with feminine cadence. The
quartets rhyme embracing, while the trios stanza Cross
crosswise rhyme (from V.9: abc, abc). Unlike previous creative phases believed Goethe shortly before and after 1800 no longer that nature and culture are opposites who viewed unbridgeable face but that they complement each other. The culture is based on the on nature. The call "back to nature", the requirement of Rousseau, the Goethe once enthusiastically gave ear, has for him no longer as strict even in younger years validity. DC strong pull him now the natural and created by man in For Goethe means "nature" in this poem in humans the natural, "art" the artificial, man-made and the civilization created things. With "natural" says Goethe in this poem not only the nature without the natural in human behavior, as this word since the time is understood the romance, and "art" he understands not only the work of an artist, in which the parts harmoniously into a whole join, but all skillful creation. Now the statement is true of the first quartet with the events that Goethe have a decisive influence on an earlier period of life agree.