Duino Elegies and other Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Duino Elegies and other Selected Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke

fiction classics poetry reflective slow-paced

64 pages | first published 1923

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We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to wh...
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emotional 50%
reflective 50%
inspiring 33%
hopeful 16%
informative 16%
mysterious 16%
relaxing 16%

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slow 28%
fast 14%

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