This poem notes how "first music ventured to penetrate arid rigidity" following the death of Linos and earlier asks "Have you remembered Gastara Stampa sufficiently yet?
This poem notes how "first music ventured to penetrate arid rigidity" following the death of Linos and earlier asks "Have you remembered Gastara Stampa sufficiently yet?" One section of this work introduces the image of a fig-tree, noting that "there has been meaning for me in the way you almost wholly omit to flower." This poem names constellations like the rider, the staff, the cradle, the burning book, and the doll before mentioning "a clearly shining M, that stands for the Mothers." In a work subtitled "Reflections on the Problems of Translation," William Gass reviews seven versions of this poem before offering his own translation. This poem notes "Every angel is a terror," and the first of this poem's ten sections begins "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders? For 10 points name this long poem inspired by a visit to a castle by Rainer Maria Rilke.
This poem notes how "first music ventured to penetrate arid rigidity" following the death of Linos and earlier asks "Have you remembered Gastara Stampa sufficiently yet?
{Duino Elegies} [or {Duineser Elegien}]