LOOKING FOR RILKE

LOOKING FOR RILKE

Welcome to The New Verse, dear reader. I hope that you have a swell time learning about/ reading poetry.

Today, I’d like to talk about my favorite poet. It is such a common phenomenon that writers or poets who are serious and really grounded in their craft would always have a particular poet or writer they look up to, or enjoy. I do have my own to, just like a million other writers and poets.

Meet René wilhemn Johann Josef Maria Rilke, an Austrian poet.

Rilke, as I would prefer to call him, was born in Prague ( then and now) and was said to have had an unhappy childhood.

There are a a couple of stories attached to him that opened our eyes to his childhood, and these stories, as prevalent with now-notable writers/poet have the backdrop of his father and mother as a struggling couple, in Prague.

Let’s not really go into his background. But if you’d like to know alot about Rilke, follow here

Rilke, was of the literary movement of modernism which is a movement that reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies, and war. This movement and ideology followed and guided Rilke in all of his works.

He wrote just one novel, and a lot of sweet savoring poetries.

Now, let’s talk about his work that really captured me.

THE FIFTH ELEGY.

Angel!: If there were a place that we didn’t know of, and there,
on some unsayable carpet, lovers displayed
what they never could bring to mastery here—the bold
exploits of their high-flying hearts,
their towers of pleasure, their ladders
that have long since been standing where there was no ground, leaning
just on each other, trembling,—and could master all this,
before the surrounding spectators, the innumerable soundless dead:
Would these, then, throw down their final, forever saved-up,
forever hidden, unknown to us, eternally valid
coins of happiness before the at last
genuinely smiling pair on the gratified
carpet?

See? You loved it!

I totally did when I first read it in my best novel of all time titled The Time Travelers’s wife, by Audrey Niffenegger.

Rilke is a god, isn’t he? Omo 😅

Now, I think that Rilke must have had a couple of encounters nwith the god of Poetry, or how else would he have been able to write so we’ll like that.

Well, a majority of Rilke’s work was written in German, and he is the sole reason I am learning German.

Rilke’s works evoke a feeling of transparency in me, I feel like.he could almost see my innermost self when he was writing his poetries. Rilke’s work also evoke a feeling of a higher calling. I feel like I must learn German in order to be able to write and read poetry in German. That’s the calling.😂😂
Rilke’s work also evoke in me a feeling of love, of respect, of awe, of the urge to want to be like him. To write about Engels and Mann and Ich and Wassser and Brot and Wein.

Ich bin ein Fan von Rainer.❤️❤️❤️❤️

Would you like to read his works?
Please, do!!!?


Thank you for reading through to the end, I love you.

And I would like for you to tell me about your favorite work, or author in the comment section.
Thank you!

Image copyright : The New Yorker.