Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien by Rainer Maria Rilke

Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien

Rainer Maria Rilke

96 pages first pub 1923 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Rainer Maria Rilke, one of Germany's greatest poets, began this work in 1912, at the castle of Duino near Trieste. It took him a decade to complete these meditations on love, death, God, and life's meaning, and he regarded them as his greatest ach...

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Moods

reflective 80%
emotional 60%
challenging 54%
inspiring 30%
dark 23%
mysterious 21%
hopeful 17%
sad 17%
relaxing 10%
informative 4%
lighthearted 4%
adventurous 2%
tense 2%

Pace

medium 45%
slow 42%
fast 12%

Average rating

4.28

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