Noting that "every angel is terror," the poet longs for the days of Tobias, while its last section, the tenth, imagines the Lament family in the City of Grief, ending the collection with the lines, "And we, who think of ascending joy, would feel the emotion that almost dismays us when a joyful thing falls.
Robert Hunter, better known as one of the main lyricists for the Grateful Dead, published a 1989 translation of this poetic work. Addressing an "attentive girl" in the third section, the poet asks whether she expects he "gentle step to shake the ground" her lover stands upon. Noting that "every angel is terror," the poet longs for the days of Tobias, while its last section, the tenth, imagines the Lament family in the City of Grief, ending the collection with the lines, "And we, who think of ascending joy, would feel the emotion that almost dismays us when a joyful thing falls." Beginning with the phrase, "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?" for ten points, identify this collection of ten poems named after a castle and written by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Robert Hunter, better known as one of the main lyricists for the Grateful Dead, published a 1989 translation of this poetic work.
{Duino Elegies} or {Duineser Elegien}