7/6/2023 0 Comments Rilke duino elegies![]() The main lexical items are linked by alliteration (assibilation), and the key verbs are largely cast in the present tense and framed by verbs in the subjunctive. The language of the first stanza is discursive, its repeated conjunctions and adverbs sustaining a voice of supplication, and apart from the opening and concluding ones, line lengths are in atypically long hexameter form. The text, accordingly, is formed through upward-reaching verbs, flowing participle forms and a tone of exhortation, which announce in miniature the key themes of the Elegy: the desire of the lyrical subject to make contact with an unspecified Other (the “call” theme) the attempt to break the bonds of creaturely life, symbolised by the flight of the bird and the trope of the inwardness of the spirit (the single heart), which alone offers redemption. ![]() The first Elegy began with a cry of (muted) anguish, but the cry of this Elegy has its origins not in despair but in the will to transcendence. Wenn ihn die Jahreszeit aufhebt, die steigende, beinah vergessend,ĭaß er ein kümmerndes Tier und nicht nur ein einzelnes Herz sei,ĭas sie ins Heitere wirft, in die innigen Himmel. Sei deines Schreies Natur zwar schrieest du rein wie der Vogel, ![]() ![]() Werbung nicht mehr, nicht Werbung, entwachsene Stimme, ![]()
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