Thursday, March 8:
Work with the children, a walk, the weather not pleasant, gray, sunless ... Gloomy thoughts, brought about by Die Walküre.
In the evening poems by Goethe. R. dissatisfied with the poem to Oken, which I seek in vain to defend.
Cosima's Diaries
Diary Entry of March 8, 1877
Overview
Routine work with the children and an unpleasant gray day left the atmosphere subdued. Concerns stirred by Walkiire lingered, and the evening reading of Goethe ended with disagreement over a poem that could not be defended to R.'s satisfaction.