" The first poem in this collection celebrates the death of Gaspara Stampa, and praises Samson as a hero.
Elaine Boney translated this work literally, and it has also been translated by Leishman and Spender. The fifth one was inspired by a Picasso painting depicting acrobats, Les Saltimbanques, while the fourth asks, "O trees of life, when are you wintering?" The first poem in this collection celebrates the death of Gaspara Stampa, and praises Samson as a hero. The ninth compares the life of a tree to a human's and posits that the tree is happier, and the tenth contrasts the City of Pain with Life-Death. Beginning "Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?", FTP, identify this collection of ten poems, complemented by the Sonnets to Orpheus and written by Ranier Maria Rilke in the title location.
Elaine Boney translated this work literally, and it has also been translated by Leishman and Spender.
{Duino Elegies}