This poem describes night as "a time when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces", and it suggests in its first stanza that "perhaps there remains for us some tree on a hillside, which every day we can take into our vision".
This poem describes night as "a time when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces", and it suggests in its first stanza that "perhaps there remains for us some tree on a hillside, which every day we can take into our vision". A parenthetical aside in Its third stanza describes its addressee's struggles with "huge strange thoughts inside you / going and coming and often staying all night"; that stanza opens by telling of a time when "as you walked under an open window, a (*) violin yielded itself to your hearing". It expresses a wish that "any girl deserted by her beloved" should be inspired by a certain "fierce example of soaring, / objectless love" after asking its addressee "Have you imagined Gaspara Stampa intensely enough?" For 10 points, identify this poem that opens with the line "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?", which begins a Rainer Maria Rilke collection inspired by a castle in Trieste.
This poem describes night as "a time when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces", and it suggests in its first stanza that "perhaps there remains for us some tree on a hillside, which every day we can take into our vision".
the first {Duino Elegy} [accept equivalents like “{die erste Duineser Elegie}”, prompt on “the {Duino Elegies}” or “{die Duineser Elegien}”]