At one point the speaker admits his contradictory tone when he asserts that his call to is always full of "get away."
At one point the speaker admits his contradictory tone when he asserts that his call to is always full of "get away." In another of these poems, the speaker notes that humans "don't love like flowers" and that "memory climbs into our arms." In yet another selection, the speaker discusses the "cheap winter hats of fate" made by the milliner, Madame Lamort. Although the first one celebrates the accomplishments of a brokenhearted 16th Century poet in publishing her Rime, the second to last of them is more pessimistic as it compares the "half-certainty" of a bird to an "Etruscan soul." That poem, the eighth, is dedicated to Rudolf Kassner and is preceded by another, containing a description of acrobats tumbling, inspired by Picasso and dedicated to Frau Hertha Koenig. This cycle of poems, which was ultimately completed in 1922, begins with the speaker asking, "If I cry out, who would hear me through the Angel orders?" and was named for a castle in Trieste. For 10 points, identify this collection of ten poems, whose subtitle marks them as "property of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe," a work by Rainer Maria Rilke.
At one point the speaker admits his contradictory tone when he asserts that his call to is always full of "get away."
The Duino Elegies