Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Read in April, 2008
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Poets, lost souls, hippies with a bent for the bookshelf
I suspect I would have gotten a lot more out of this book, on an emotional level, were I more poetically-inclined/-informed/-etc. As it is, what few poems I understood intellectually were outstanding.
This is one of those new-fangled high-speed books printed in dual languages. The English translations of the German, the few times I checked them, were both poetically and semantically sound.
I know a huge number of people have gained great insight from reading Rilke's poetic output—but I g...more
This is one of those new-fangled high-speed books printed in dual languages. The English translations of the German, the few times I checked them, were both poetically and semantically sound.
I know a huge number of people have gained great insight from reading Rilke's poetic output—but I g...more
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I need to find out whether or not to finally drink the Rilke Kool-Aid. Looks promising so far:
"Don't be afraid to suffer; replace
the heaviness back on the earth's own weight:
the mountains are heavy, so are the seas"
from The Sonnets to Orpheus: First Series
"Don't be afraid to suffer; replace
the heaviness back on the earth's own weight:
the mountains are heavy, so are the seas"
from The Sonnets to Orpheus: First Series
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Read in May, 2007
Yesterday our campus bookstore had a sale and so I went and bought books including this one. Then instead of doing math homework I laid in the grass and read Rilke out loud to myself for two hours. I didn't mind that my throat got dry after a while.
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Read in March, 2008
I'm not sure how I made it this long without reading and Rilke, but after reading Gravity's Rainbow I felt compelled, finally, to read the poems that so influenced Pynchon. The Duino Elegies are really amazing, even in translation.
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Read in October, 2007
Poesía elegiaca, intimista y reflexiva.
De gran belleza, aunque a mi juicio demasiado abstracta. Únicamente, en alguno de los sonetos, se refleja la pasión por la vida y la poesía.
De gran belleza, aunque a mi juicio demasiado abstracta. Únicamente, en alguno de los sonetos, se refleja la pasión por la vida y la poesía.
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Read in January, 1985
These poems had a huge impact on me in college. Finally, poems about life! "...animals already know by instinct that we are not comfortably at home in our translated world."
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so FUCKING good. like, SO fucking good. like he built a universe out of nothing. read the stephen mitchell translation-- not the one that's shown in this image.
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pretty good translation - not as transcendent as mitchell's
book description says "long considered the definitive translation blah blah blah..." huh? by who?
book description says "long considered the definitive translation blah blah blah..." huh? by who?
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Read in February, 2008
I don't know what's going on for half of this book, but I'm not sure I care--that's how gorgeous some of these lines are. Really lovely and mysterious.
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Read in April, 2007
You pick it up, you fall in love, you put it down, you skip to a different page, you get punched in the face, and you fall in love all over again.
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Read in November, 2007
I love me some facing-page translations.
And I love to see someone articulate the love of emptiness and solitude so well.
And I love to see someone articulate the love of emptiness and solitude so well.
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Read in April, 2007
Although I've been attached to the Edward Snow translation, I really liked the intuitive, organic quality of Poulin's.
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Can't we just face the fact that the Duino Elegies are all that really needs to be written?
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One of the better translations I've read but it is hard to go wrong with RMRilke!
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Read in January, 1999
The Duino Eleegies are way better than the Sonnets to Orpheus.
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I love it too much to write about it.
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