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A review by lucy_qhuay
Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
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I'm sorry. I really am. I really wanted to love this book, since I love poetry and I have read some excerpts of other works of Rainer Maria Rilke and I thought they were pretty interesting.
But I just couldn't bring myself to appreciate this one.
I consider myself an erudite/educate person, however you prefer to call it but I have to admit that I spent most of the time extremely confused.
I couldn't understand what was that the author wanted to transmit with the metaphors and chains of imagery he used and I didn't like that he mixed said metaphors a lot, instead of finishing the ideas that he had started.
Elegies are supposed to give us the sense of lament and to bring us to a more melancholy and pensive mood. That didn't happen to me at all.
How could it happen when I'm supposed to know what is being mourned and feel deeply about it and I just didn't?
About the sonnets, I just have to say that I did, in fact, understand them but I just couldn't bring myself to care.
What a pity!
But I just couldn't bring myself to appreciate this one.
I consider myself an erudite/educate person, however you prefer to call it but I have to admit that I spent most of the time extremely confused.
I couldn't understand what was that the author wanted to transmit with the metaphors and chains of imagery he used and I didn't like that he mixed said metaphors a lot, instead of finishing the ideas that he had started.
Elegies are supposed to give us the sense of lament and to bring us to a more melancholy and pensive mood. That didn't happen to me at all.
How could it happen when I'm supposed to know what is being mourned and feel deeply about it and I just didn't?
About the sonnets, I just have to say that I did, in fact, understand them but I just couldn't bring myself to care.
What a pity!