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Thoughts on Rainer Maria Rilke?

>> No.11881616

>>11881611
Good shit, but not particularly good shit.

>> No.11881637

In high school, my desk neighbour concluded that all of his works are about child molestation in some form or another. Good times.

>> No.11881642

>>11881611
Hey that looks like me.
And reminds me why I don't grow a beard

>> No.11881643

>>11881611
Muh angels

>> No.11881731

>>11881611
second favorite 20th century poet tbqh
i am a sucker for anything mysticism that is well done

>> No.11882081

>>11881611
What should I read after letters to a young poet?

>> No.11882124

I love his name so much that I feel like I should like his poetry a lot more. What I've read has been very dry, however.

>> No.11882158

>>11881731
who is your number one and number three

>> No.11882686

>>11882158
1 is Trakl, 3 is Yeats

I don't really read a lot of poetry

>> No.11882781

>>11882686

You just put me on to Trakl, thanks, also a fan of mystic poetry. Yeats is one of my tops too. I suggest you read Wallace Stevens if you like that sort of thing. Maybe Auden if you're patient .

>> No.11882840

The Tiger
He is in the cage
Yes
YES
The Tiger is in

>> No.11882864

>>11882686
>>11882781
>Trakl
BASED

>> No.11882877

>>11882864
Sell me on Trakl. How does he do mysticism compared to Rilke?

>> No.11882892

>>11882781
Just read a couple poems by each, they both seem interesting, Stevens especially

>> No.11882901

>>11882877
Trakl is much more obscure than Rilke, his poems are often just a list of images that somehow become interconnected the more you read them

Trakl's prose poetry is fucking great as well. Read this
https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Trakl.pdf
and this
http://www.outriderspoetryproject.com/uploads/4/6/1/4/4614234/trakls_collected_poems.pdf

Trakl is not exactly mysticism though, he is kind of his own thing, and it is almost all about night and these intense images and sensations

>> No.11882913

>>11882901
for example

Dark stillness of childhood. Under green-growing ash trees
Gentleness basks with a pale blue gaze. Golden repose.
A dark thing is ravished by the odor of violets. Swaying sheaves
In the evening, seed and the golden shadow of heaviness.
The carpenter hews his beams; in the twilight of the valley
A mill grinds corn. A crimson mouth curves in the hazel leaves,
A virile red bent over silent waters.
Soft is autumn, the spirit of the forest. A golden cloud
Pursues the solitary, the black shadow of the grandchild.
Decline in a stony room. Under ancient cypresses
The night images of the tears gather into a spring--
Golden eye of the beginning, dark patience of the end

>> No.11882939

>>11881611
sensitive guy who was ready to sublimate anything in his inner experience as a representation of the great tree of life

>> No.11883312

>>11882913

this is so fucking beautiful thank you anon holy shit

>> No.11883325

>>11883312
could we start a trakl chat

>> No.11883368

>>11883325

Idk how that'd work but if you have any recommended translations I'm all ears.

>> No.11883369

>>11883312
yeah he's the best

also since we have commandeered the thread here is a related twilight poem from Rilke:

My room and this distance,
awake upon the darkening land,
are one. I am a string
stretched across deep
surging resonance.

Things are violin bodies
full of murmuring darkness,
where women's weeping dreams,
where the rancor of whole generations
stirs in its sleep . . .
I should release
my silver vibrations: then
everything below me will live,
and whatever strays into things
will seek the light
that falls without end from my dancing tone
into the old abysses
around which heaven swells
through narrow
imploring
rifts.

>> No.11883382

>>11881611
He's like the Scriabin of poetry

>> No.11883391

>>11883368
well, a lot of philosophers have interpreted his work (i just recently learnt about lacan's, for instance), so that could be a topic
about translations, latelt i've been meaning to compare his translations to spanish and english after having his poem "sonja" presented to me in those languages + the original. have you read him in any other language?

>> No.11883439

>>11883391

Only in English, I was mostly curious if you had a specefic english translator to recommend

>> No.11883454

>>11883439
can't vouch for any yet
sorry