Key Arguments

• He equates title with existential stance: 'name' as 'One More Time' ties the song to repetition; 'sense' as 'to all eternity' universalizes it to eternal recurrence.
• By instructing the higher humans to sing this specific content, he identifies assent to recurrence as the criterion of elevation.
• The parallel phrasing ('whose name is', 'whose sense is') links surface form (the song) with metaphysical-ethical content (eternity), collapsing art and doctrine.

Source Quotes

You higher humans, now sing for me my roundelay! Now sing yourselves the song whose name is ‘One More Time’, whose sense is ‘to all eternity!’ Sing, you higher humans, Zarathustra’s roundelay!

Key Concepts

• Now sing yourselves the song whose name is ‘One More Time’, whose sense is ‘to all eternity!’

Context

Immediately after commanding performance, Zarathustra defines the song’s essence in two clauses, tying its poetic refrain to the doctrine of eternal recurrence previously developed.

Perspectives

Nietzsche

This is the existential formula of the eternal return: to will 'once more' is to will 'to all eternity.' The aesthetic form (roundelay) enacts the metaphysics—circular song as symbolic of recurrence.

Zarathustra

Let the refrain itself teach you: say 'One More Time' and mean 'to all eternity.' In your singing, bind yourself to the circle you affirm.