A review by oumaima
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

5.0

i'm unfamiliar with rilke's poetry (as i am with most poets that wrote outside of the confines of french and arabic, and i feel almost lucky for that as i have the opportunity to learn from them outside of a strict studying frame). i read these 10 elegies over the course of the last 3 hours, and while i do feel like i should have read them at night, and i did struggle with the length, i do love rilke's understanding of death, of what lies beneath it and where it leads the dead and the ponderings it leads to.