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A review by blueyorkie
As Elegias de Duíno by Rainer Maria Rilke
5.0
“The Duino Elegies” is undoubtedly his masterpiece.
This collection underlines the human creature’s distress, who feels like a stranger in a world abandoned by the beauty and the sacred.
Haunted by the flight of time and death, she cannot fully participate in the universal life.
In these conditions, the poet’s role is essential: he must endeavor to account for this outpouring of existence. The grasp alone can push back the anguish.
Rilke extends this reflection in Sonnets to Orpheus, where he magnifies death by celebrating the memory of a young girl who died at nineteen.
This reflection on death thus alleviates anxiety and releases the jubilation one must feel to be in the world.
This collection underlines the human creature’s distress, who feels like a stranger in a world abandoned by the beauty and the sacred.
Haunted by the flight of time and death, she cannot fully participate in the universal life.
In these conditions, the poet’s role is essential: he must endeavor to account for this outpouring of existence. The grasp alone can push back the anguish.
Rilke extends this reflection in Sonnets to Orpheus, where he magnifies death by celebrating the memory of a young girl who died at nineteen.
This reflection on death thus alleviates anxiety and releases the jubilation one must feel to be in the world.