I begin with my first three encounters with
Rilke's sonnet, which involved such basic matters as definition, tone, and rhyming, but also engaged Gadamer's understanding of "questioning," "imagination," and "prejudice." Next, I describe the risk of submitting my understanding of the poem to that of Gadamer, as laid out in his essay, "Poetry and Punctuation" (Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue 131-137).
And if we say yes to this mystery, we, like
Rilke, must journey toward God with our very lives.
Rilke theatrically tumbled in the box under the challenge of Jackie McNamara after Tomas Kuchar's cross - but the referee looked disinterested as Kennedy cleared the danger.
We played football and baseball, little
Rilke's bat being almost as big as him.
In 1902, at twenty-six, Rainer Maria
Rilke visited Paris for the first time, drawn by his perception -- he was not alone -- of France as the consummate home of the artist.
With conceptual ideas, Haritini's work aims to make the audience look inwards suggesting that with inner work and transformation to create a serene internal space, a personal rebirth can grow, supporting what Rainer Maria
Rilke writes; that the most evident joy is revealed for the first time when we transform it internally.
Rilke ends his sonnet "Archaic Torso of Apollo" saying "You must change your life." James Wright ends "Lying In a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" saying "I have wasted my life." Ruth Stone ends "A Moment" saying "You do not want to repeat my life." A minute seed with a giant soul kicking inside it at the end And beginning of life.
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria
Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Seven years ago, a beloved friend gave me a copy of Rainer Maria
Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet'.
The works of Rainer Maria
Rilke (1875-1926), a famous poet and novelist, have been read, discussed, and studied around the world.
I then employ that thinking in a reexamination of two exemplary works of modernist ethics: Rainer Maria
Rilke's "Archaischer Torso Apollos," a poem that embodies the modernist imperative to renewed aesthetic perception, and Virginia Woolf's first experimental novel, Jacob's Room, a work that recently has been read as ethically enjoining us to the perception of the absolute alterity of others (following Levinas and Derrida).
