Rainer Maria Rilke

then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge,” claims Rainer Maria Rilke. In his Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke shares his faith in nature as a wiser entity and advises others to do the same. He emphasizes the beauty in simplicity, and in allowing our place in the natural world to guide us. This ideology follows…

“How can you move when the world is tumbling down around you?” This is a question pondered throughout the whole story of Illegal by Bettina Restrepo, a story conveying the enervating immigration experience of a young girl and her family to America. In Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, he asserts that “human beings are motivated, even driven, by desires, fears, needs, and conflicts of which they are unaware.” Nora is initially motivated by the broken promises of her dad to return to Mexico…

to try other themes because writing about love is no something that he is good about it. The writer is telling this desperate writer to explore deep inside to make sure writing is his real passion. The best advised in this letter was when Rainer Maria Rilke said “to go into himself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its…

by Rainer Maria Rilke. These writings show God in similar, but different ways. Today, many people know God is a neighbor that is there when needed; but, he is also much more than that. Neighbors are more often than not great people. They can keep an eye on things while a person is out of town, and lend a helping hand if need be. Neighbors, however, do not typically have very personal relationships. They see each other and give a friendly wave and then continue on with their day. In the Rilke…

Throughout life people fear, whether it’s something ridiculous like bugs or something immense like death. But what if what is actually feared by people is what needs love the most? According to a quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, “Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love.”, normal everyday fears and life's more inevitable fears are just the things that need love the most. Similarly, Grant Wiggins in the novel A Lesson Before Dying and…

In Cold Stream,1966 I believe Twombly attempts to internalized Mallarme’s boundless confidence to search for his ideal and transforms an empty blackboard into an endless voyage within the sea. The sea, symbolic, becomes a vast expansion of divine chance. Abysmal and ever evolving, the sea is in constant motion whether on the surface or beneath just like the conscious and unconsciousness of our minds. The sea and the mind’s violent turbulence, the clarity of its stillness, ever changing, we…

rotates between Kanai, Piya, and Kanai’s uncle, Nirmal. Kanai and Piya’s passages operate in the present day, while Nirmal’s are set in the past, since he is deceased. One of the signature elements of Nirmal’s sections is referencing German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, or simply, the Poet. Having a man living in the Sundarbans of India living by the words of a German poet is already a global tie in itself, but it is strengthened by how the poems themselves relate and reflect what is happening in…

Two of Berg’s early songs, “Liebe” from 1904 and “Traumgekönt” from 1907, are set to poems from Rainer Maria Rilke’s volume Traumgekrönt, where they open the section “Lieben”. In the twenty-two poems of this part, Rilke explores different forms and qualities of love in brief, self-contained scenes or impressions. Taken for itself, the title “Lieben” could be the plural of “Liebe” (love), but considering that it is preceded by “Träumen” ([to] dream), it is likely meant as a verb ([to] love). The…

Situations may not always present an outcome of the preferable circumstances, however it is imperative to understand that while some tribulations are uncontainable, others may serve as a result of governable actions. In the poem “The Panther” written Rainer Maria Rilke, there is an illustration of a hopeless, “weary” (Meyer 635) panther who is uncertain of its captivity behind…

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