Our third Rilke seminar at the Aquinas academy began by looking at the following proposition and then at the same time pondering the relationship between this and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146. (click to view). Both Rilke and Shakespeare indicate that living in the face of death can indeed be a sober annihilation of all that is false…
Tag: Duino Elegies
The Poetry of Grace: Rainer Maria Rilke 2017 – Aquinas Academy, Sydney
I began teaching a four part series on the poetry of Rilke today at the Aquinas Academy. We covered a few of Rilke’s very early poems and then moved on to the Sonnets to Orpheus and to Rilke’s Ninth Elegy. The sessions are recorded and can be listened to right here. Enjoy!
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