"Eyes clearly open unto nature": Heidegger and Goethe

Goethe is both absent and present in Heidegger. Absent as poet, except inas much as a master of German; present as prose writer, inasmuch as his nature writings resist overly rational approaches; in all, his metaphysical poetr y is never commented for its meaning precisely because it considers man par t of nature, the metaphysical error par excellence for Heidegger.