By Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria Rilke
On hand for the 1st time in one quantity, Ranier Maria Rilke's so much cherished sequences of poems rendered through his such a lot trustworthy translator. Rilke is surely the 20 th century's most vital and compelling poet of romantic transformation and non secular quest. His poems of ecstatic id with the realm exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell's models of Rilke's maximum masterpieces readers will observe an English rendering that captures the lyric depth, fluency, and succeed in of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke's textual content, to his formal song, and to the complexity of his suggestion; even as, Mitchell's paintings has authority and gear as poetry in its personal correct.
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They may be very good, by current standards —many of them find their way into respected literary journals. But true poems, and poets, are difficult to come by. " What matters in your work, ultimately, is not how much it pleases an editor, but whether it has integrity—integrity of vision as much as language. 62 THE POETS IDEAS FOR COMPANION WRITING 1. As a warmup, write something that you would never show to anyone, that you are afraid even to put down on the page. Get it out, as much of it as possible, in as much shameful or horrifying detail as you can manage.
The traditional imagery for good and evil is light and dark, white and black. Brainstorm a list of images called up by the two opposites, light/white and black/dark. Then write a poem that inverts and reverses those traditional associations. That is, what is beautiful, fertile, inspiring in the dark, in night, in deep caves? What's awful or terrifying in daylight? Witnessing What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors? —Bertolt Brecht, "To Those Born Later" The German poet and playwright wrote those lines in the thirties, but what he called the "dark times" are far from over.
Advertising exploits language to convince us we are buying not only a product but a bit of class, or sexiness, or sophistication. Politicians hire speechwriters to play on our sense of patriotism, our fears, our compassion for others. Read George Orwell's famous essay "Politics and the English Lan- Witnessing 65 guage," or his classic novel, 1984. Political doublespeak is everywhere. In a war, a phrase like "collateral damage" may be used to refer to civilian casualties. But even the words "civilian casualties" create a screen beyond which it's hard to see real human suffering.