Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was a person.

• AKA: René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke.
• Context:
  • They can typically be associated with Rainer Maria Rilke Publications.
  • They can typically be associated with Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes.
  • It can typically express Poetic Insight through lyrical verses and prose poems.
  • It can typically explore Existential Themes through symbolic imagery and metaphysical contemplation.
  • It can typically transform Inner Experience into poetic language and evocative metaphors.
  • It can typically bridge European Literary Traditions through multilingual writing and cross-cultural influence.
  • It can typically articulate Spiritual Questioning through religious imagery and transcendental reflection.
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  • It can often demonstrate Artistic Devotion through disciplined writing practice and creative isolation.
  • It can often reflect Philosophical Depth through ontological inquiry and phenomenological observation.
  • It can often express Visual Sensitivity through ekphrastic poetry and art criticism.
  • It can often maintain Patronage Relationships with aristocratic supporters and cultural benefactors.
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  • It can range from being a Young Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) to being a Mature Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), depending on its creative development.
  • It can range from being a Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) as Poet to being a Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) as Prose Writer, depending on its literary form.
  • It can range from being a Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) as Romantic to being a Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) as Modernist, depending on its aesthetic approach.
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  • It can have Personal Connection with influential artists such as auguste rodin and lou andreas-salomé.
  • It can have Literary Achievement through duino elegies, sonnets to orpheus, and letters to a young poet.
  • It can have Cultural Impact on existentialist philosophy, modernist poetry, and literary translation.
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• Examples:
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Literary Periods, such as:
    • Early Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Periods, such as:
      • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) (1894), during publication of early poetry collection "Leben und Lieder".
      • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) (1899), during writing of "Stories of God".
    • Middle Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Periods, such as:
      • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) (1902), during study with auguste rodin in paris.
      • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) (1910), during writing of "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge".
    • Late Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Periods, such as:
      • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) (1922), during completion of duino elegies and sonnets to orpheus.
      • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) (1926), during final creative period before death.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Major Works, such as:
    • Poetic Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Works, such as:
      • Duino Elegies exploring human condition and transcendental reality.
      • Sonnets to Orpheus examining mythological themes and creative transformation.
    • Prose Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Works, such as:
      • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge portraying urban alienation and psychological fragmentation.
      • Letters to a Young Poet offering artistic advice and spiritual guidance.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Stefan George (1868-1933), who creates esoteric poetry with aristocratic ideals rather than existential questioning.
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), who transitions from poetry to dramatic works unlike rainer maria rilke (1875-1926)'s continued poetic focus.
  • Thomas Mann (1875-1955), who focuses on prose fiction and social critique rather than poetic expression and inner life.
• See: German-language Poet, Modernist Writer, Existentialist Poet, Literary Correspondent, Prague-born Author.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke Retrieved:2014-9-10.
  • René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) — better known as Rainer Maria Rilke () — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers. Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelled extensively throughout Europe and North Africa, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and in his later years settled in Switzerland — settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (') and Sonnets to Orpheus ('), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ('), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet ('). In the later 20th century, his work has found new audiences through its use by New Age theologians and self-help authors, and through frequent quoting in television programs, books and motion pictures. In the United States, Rilke is one of the more popular, best-selling poets — along with 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi and 20th-century Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran.

1902

• (Rielke, 1902) ⇒ Rainer Maria Rilke. (1902). “Abend (Evening)"
  

Slowly the evening changes its garments
held for it by a rim of ancient trees;
you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you,
one sinking and one rising toward the sky. 

And you are left, to neither quite belonging,
not quite so dark as the house sunk in silence,
nor quite so surely pledged unto eternity
as that which grows to star and climbs the night. 

To you is left (unspeakably confused)
your life, gigantic, ripening, full of fears,
so that it, now hemmed in, now grasping all,
is changed in you by turns to stone and stars.

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