" For 10 points, name this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, the last of the Duino Elegies.
This poem's author punned on the word for "meaning" by adding an extra n to the last word of the phrase "unser dunkeles Sinngrün" (UN-sah DUNK-uh-luhs ZIN-groon), or "our dark periwinkle." This poem describes a sepulchral monument "like a brother to that on the Nile, the lo7ty Sphinx," that "placed the face of men on the scale of the stars." In this poem, an owl draws an "indescribable outline" in a listener's "Totengehör" (TOH-ten-guh-HER), a compound literally meaning "death-hearing." This poem's speaker prays to reach "the end of ferocious insight" and "sing jubilation and glory to approving angels." In this poem, members of a race of Laments lead a dead youth away from the City of Grief to the Mountains of Primal Grief. This poem ends by imagining how "we, who think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost overwhelms us when a happy thing falls." For 10 points, name this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, the last of the Duino Elegies.
This poem's author punned on the word for "meaning" by adding an extra n to the last word of the phrase "unser dunkeles Sinngrün"
the tenth Duino Elegy [or "Duino Elegy No. 10"; or "The Tenth Elegy"; or "Die Zehnte Elegie"; or "the last Duino Elegy" until it is read; prompt on Duino Elegies; prompt on Duineser Elegien]