The invocation of the Great Bear, together with Ingeborg Bachmann's first collection of poems, "The Deferred Time," forms the core of her lyrical work. These poems were written between 1945 and 1956 and were first published in book form in 1956. In the context of bitter worldly experience combined with the experience of the nameability of the counter-image lies the unique linguistic magic of these poems. Helmut Heissenbüttel.