5/24/2023 0 Comments First elegy rilke![]() ![]() We will read selections from Rilke’s novel, art writing, and letters, to contextualise the Duino Elegies and to consider more broadly the role of the poet in modernity. During World War I, Rilke wrote the 'Fourth Elegy', completing it the day before he was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army in November 1915. Ultimately, with the Duino Elegies, he achieved his aim of finding meaning in his suffering and providing, as he describes it, ‘peace’ and ‘safety’ to the readers of his poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rilke suffered from the new conditions of modernity, moving between between the city and the country, and questioning whether he should stop writing poetry and begin psychoanalysis. In this course we will study the relationship between tradition and modernity, and what Heidegger calls the ‘trace of the holy,’ in the Dunio Elegies. While out walking he claimed to hear a voice calling to him the first lines of the first Elegy: ‘Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the hierarchies of angels?’ Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the Duino Elegies between 19 at the Duino Castle on cliffs overlooking the Gulf of Trieste in Italy. ![]()
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