A review by luda_12
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

5.0

Rilke's way of writing is beautiful, lyrical, and breathtaking. While I was reading each Elegie I had a smile on my face because it was that beautiful. His thoughts of life and death, youth and growing up, love and sorrow are remarkably well written and explored. Melancholy and solitude are two basic ideas that he discusses and he does in such a way that makes you feel like you're experiencing all of the emotions at once. You feel everything and nothing at the same time. That's how I'd describe this collection. The build-up from the first to the tenth Elegie is magnificent and very methodic. Each Elegie stands on each own yet by the end, everything is intervened in the most satisfying way.

Rilke uses a lot of metaphors and gets his inspiration from Nature and he describes everything in a lovely way. I could go on and on about how amazing this collection is. But I don't think I would give it justice nor that I have fully comprehended its greatness.


truly a masterpiece!