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miriam_navarro_prieto's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
hedgehogreads01's review against another edition
3.0
Rilke gets 5 ⭐️ and Mood gets 1 ⭐️.
Mood is absolutely serious, when he writes in the intro, that Rilke understood women better, and was better in the feminism theory than Simone de Beauvoir and other female activists of her time. De Beauvoir wasn’t up to Mood’s standards of how a feminist should write, you know. What a shame, Simone!
Mood is absolutely serious, when he writes in the intro, that Rilke understood women better, and was better in the feminism theory than Simone de Beauvoir and other female activists of her time. De Beauvoir wasn’t up to Mood’s standards of how a feminist should write, you know. What a shame, Simone!
modernviking's review against another edition
3.0
Not quite what I expected. Good, but when the 10 page essay examining a 12 word poem . . .
"resolve to be always begining -- to be a beginner!"
"resolve to be always begining -- to be a beginner!"
delaniejo's review against another edition
1.0
I think Rilke’s best work focuses on how women are more human than men are, but this collection was a crude focus on sex and how men and women come together. Very heteronormative and strange to put these together and focus on the physical exchange between people when Rilke is usually praised for his early feminist ideas of love and relationships.
stellabezemer's review against another edition
3.0
3 stars purely for the analysis and the book itself, Rilke's work in itself would always (so far) be a 5 stars rating for me.
sfouts's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
4.0
joanlee0522's review against another edition
not my favorite poetry by rilke
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
nefelibatice's review against another edition
3.0
"A togetherness between two people is an impossibility, and where it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a reciprocal agreement which robs either one party or both of his fullest freedom and development. But, once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky!"