One of these works revels in the immense joy of eating "Fat apple, banana, pear, / gooseberry", while another asks, "Is there no constellation Rider?" The author of these exhorts the reader to "take inspiration from the flame" in transforming and "turn[ing] yourself into wind" like Daphne. One poem in this collection worries about offending "the great unsuing gods" "Just because they do not know the hard / strong steel that we produce", one of several that laments the aesthetic problems with the industrial age. One of these poems states, "Erect no monument. Just let the roses / blossom" as a reward for the title character, who "drowned out" the shouting of Maenads "with beautiful order" and "uplifting playing". Writ
One of these works revels in the immense joy of eating "Fat apple, banana, pear, / gooseberry", while another asks, "Is there no constellation Rider?" The author of these exhorts the reader to "take inspiration from the flame" in transforming and "turn[ing] yourself into wind" like Daphne. One poem in this collection worries about offending "the great unsuing gods" "Just because they do not know the hard / strong steel that we produce", one of several that laments the aesthetic problems with the industrial age. One of these poems states, "Erect no monument. Just let the roses / blossom" as a reward for the title character, who "drowned out" the shouting of Maenads "with beautiful order" and "uplifting playing". Written to commemorate the death of the young dancer Vera Knoop, for 10 points, name this cycle of 55 fourteen-line poems addressed to a lyre-playing Greek by Rainer Maria Rilke.
One of these works revels in the immense joy of eating "Fat apple, banana, pear, / gooseberry", while another asks, "Is there no constellation Rider?"
The Sonnets to Orpheus or Die Sonette an Orpheus