A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (1905) and The Duino Elegies (1923).
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
Ich mochte die Texte in der ersten Hälfte des Buches, aber die Gedichte sind nichts für mich. Wahrscheinlich müsste man mir Erläuterungen dazu geben, damit ich etwas damit anfangen kann.