A poem in this collection claims Samson was "strangely close to those who died young" and "thousands seethed in the womb and willed to be him" before noting that his true shattering of pillars occurred when he burst into the world to choose and to achieve.
A poem in this collection claims Samson was "strangely close to those who died young" and "thousands seethed in the womb and willed to be him" before noting that his true shattering of pillars occurred when he burst into the world to choose and to achieve. Another poem in it describes an old, "wrinkled, withered" lifter and a young man who appears as if the son of a "neck and a nun." That poem in this collection addresses at one point "you, who fall, with the (*) thud that only fruit knows" while "the man is clapping his hands for your leap" and begins "But who are they, tell me, these Travellers?" That poem was inspired by Picasso's painting Les Saltimbanques. These poems were composed while its author stayed at the namesake castle on the Adriatic. For 10 points, identify this set of ten poems, the first of which begins "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders," and which was penned by Rainer Maria Rilke.
A poem in this collection claims Samson was "strangely close to those who died young" and "thousands seethed in the womb and willed to be him" before noting that his true shattering of pillars occurred when he burst into the world to choose and to achieve.
Duino Elegies [or Duineser Elegien]