5/26/2023 0 Comments Rilke 9th elegy![]() ![]() He wrote these words, the opening of the first Duino Elegy, in his notebook, then went inside to continue what was to be his major opus-completely only after another ten, tormented years of effort-and one of the literary masterpieces of the century. From out of the fierce wind, Rilke seemed to hear a voice: Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen? (If I cried out, who would hear me up there, among the angelic orders?). ![]() One morning he walked out onto the battlements and climbed down to where the cliffs dropped sharply to the sea. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste. ![]() We have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. ![]()
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