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- Widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Rainer Maria Rilke was unique in his efforts to expand the realm of poetry through new uses of syntax and imagery and in an aesthetic philosophy that rejected Christian precepts and strove to reconcile beauty and suffering, life and death. The only child of a German-speaking family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Rilke was the son of a retired officer in the Austrian army who worked as a railroad official; his mother was a socially ambitious and possessive woman. At age eleven Rilke began his formal schooling at a military boarding academy; in 1891 he was discharged due to health problems that would plague him throughout his life. After spending the summer of 1897 with her in the Bavarian Alps, Rilke accompanied Salome and her husband to Berlin in late 1897 and to Italy the following year.
Rilke’s early verse, short stories, and plays are characterized by their romanticism. His early poems show the influence of the German folk song tradition and have been compared to the lyrical work of Heinrich Heine. The most popular poetry collections of Rilke’s during this period were Vom lieben Gott und Anderes (Stories of God) and the romantic cycle Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (The Story of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke), which remained the poet’s most widely recognized book during his lifetime.
In 1899 Rilke made the first of two pivotal trips to Russia with Salome, discovering what he termed his “spiritual fatherland” in both the people and the landscape. There Rilke met Leo Tolstoy, L. O. Pasternak (father of Boris Pasternak), and the peasant poet Spiridon Droschin, whose works Rilke translated into German. These trips provided Rilke with the poetic material and inspiration essential to his developing philosophy of existential materialism and art as religion. Inspired by the lives of the Russian people, whom the poet considered more devoutly spiritual than other Europeans, Rilke’s work during this period often featured traditional Christian imagery and concepts, but presented art as the sole redeemer of humanity.
Whenever Rilke writes about God, however, he is not referring to the deity in the traditional sense, but rather uses the term to refer to the life force, or nature, or an all-embodying, pantheistic consciousness that is only slowly coming to realize its existence. “Extending the idea of evolution,” Eudo C. Mason explained in an introduction to The Book of Hours, “and inspired probably also in some measure by Nietzsche’s idea of the Superman, Rilke arrives at the paradoxical conception of God as the final result instead of the first cause of the cosmic process.” Holding in contempt “all other more traditional forms of devoutness, which… merely ‘accept God as a given fact,’” Rilke did not deny God’s existence, but insisted that all possibilities about the nature of life be given equal consideration.
Rilke was reaching a crisis in his art that revealed itself both in New Poems and his only major prose work, the novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge). These works express the poet’s growing doubts about whether anything existed that was superior to mankind and his world. This, in turn, brought into question Rilke’s very reason for writing poetry: the search for deeper meaning in life through art.
The revolutionary poetic philosophy that Rilke proposed in Duino Elegies is considered significant to many literary scholars. “No poet before him had been brave enough to accept the whole of [the dark side of the] world, as if it were unquestionably valid and potentially universal,” asserted Conrad Aiken in his Collected Criticism. Like the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who lived about the same time as Rilke, the poet determined his objective to be “celebration in the face of and in full consciousness of the facts that had caused other minds to assume an attitude of negativity,”
In the last few years of his life, Rilke was inspired by such French poets as Paul Valery and Jean Cocteau, and wrote most of his last verses in French. Rilke suffered from illness his whole life and died of leukemia in 1926 while staying at the Valmont sanatorium near Lake Geneva. On his deathbed, he remained true to his anti-Christian beliefs and refused the company of a priest. - บันเทิง
"I want to be with those who know secret things." What an amazing thing for Rilke to write, and for you to quote. Thanks for this showing!
So much comfort in philosophy
I actually cried of joy. When i listened to this. It resonated so strongly with my thoughts of life and my own experiences of life. And to find someone who can put your feeling's and thoughts into a pure form. It connects you to the world in a ways you can only understand tru experience. Thank you so much for this video.
This moves me to keep reading, writing, paying attention, driving, helping, cooking, watching many random things on TV even. She wrote that Rilke was her "favorite poet." That means a lot and makes a huge difference--if we could just meet for dinner. If we could see each other this way. The visuals here are incredibly evocative. Good work!
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Such a work of art: the writing, the reading, and the accompanying video, and the bio you added. Amazing
Wondrous! Thank you for your beautiful reading and wonderful images of the great poet of life!
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The scripting, the narrator’s voice, cinematography and sound effects are near perfect. Keep in mind, however, the problems experienced by Ken Burns. The style of his early work was so popular people referred to it as, “The Ken Burns Effect”, but when repeated in every documentary it became old and stale.
Can ideas, one of the most important creations of our species, be expressed any other way than by quotes?
If your Channel is the product of a single person, experiment with a diverse group of creative thinkers and artists. Let the product and the advancement of culture be the goal not the achievement and popularity of one person.
Keep your goal and purpose in mind, and the audience and intended effects in balance with self awareness.
I think that if you look carefully at the more than 265 individuals from across various cultures and belief systems included in Literati Series, you will see that I have done just what you have suggested. And rather than including my name on these things I have sought to add the moniker the tongue of trees so that it’s not really about me so much. If you listen to each piece you’ll discover what I have found which is a scripture embedded in the human experience itself. Beyond that all voices and all experiences become one. However I value your insights and simply seek to create a repository that highlights the human experience in a way that everyone can relate to. In the video called literati challenge I describe a dream which explains the beginnings of the series from around the great turquoise spiral flame that reached 200 feet into the sky. For me it is an opportunity to pay homage to the great and creative thinkers of our species. I appreciate your insights and hope you find some resonance here… take what is useful… Leave the rest behind. Viva literati!
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Is this a compilation from the letters?
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From what text is this? Thank you!
Aloha these selections are from his journals & letters to a young poet
Which letter is this?
This is a composite from all of the letters…
Was he into teosophy?
I can see how you’d make that connection, but nothing in my research suggests that he was.