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Probably nobody has anything on Rainer Maria Rilke And so my choice of poem today is unlikely to be disliked. Anyone who doesn't own a volume of Rilke's poetry and doesn't want to browse in a library can (still) find most of his poems on "The poems of Rainer Maria Rilke“ (as of July 7, 2008) or on the Rilke website, at least if you know the name of the corresponding poem.
In any case, visiting the website of the Rilke Society recommended; their "online forum," created in 2005, no longer exists. And so it will probably be his books that can still be found in libraries, or at least in secondhand bookshops, in a few decades.
I would also like to point out again that German Literature Archive Marbach because large parts of Rilke's estate are located there.
Auferstehung
The count hears the sounds,
He sees a bright crack;
He awakens his thirteen sons
In the family burial plot.He greets his two wives
Reverential from afar -;
And all full of trust
Stand up for eternityAnd just waiting for Erich
Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems (1907)
And Ulriken Dorotheen,
The seven and thirteen year old
(sixteen hundred and ten)
Died in Flanders,
To be ahead of the others
To proceed undeterred.
Rainer Maria Rilke has often dealt with Easter and so one can also find a “fragment of a resurrection” in his work.
The angel lifts with the trumpet blasts
Rainer Maria Rilke, Paris (June 24 or 25, 1911)
the stones up, and they, in parallel
decisions, reach out for their souls,
which are listed above, sorted by size
Rainer Maria Rilke had what we would call a difficult childhood. A horrible mother tied her only son, René—Rilke's actual name, "the reborn"—to her and forced him into the role of his deceased sister. While some boys or even adults today voluntarily wear girls' clothes, this certainly wasn't the case with Rilke.
You said live loud and to die quiet
Rainer Maria Rilke, from “I read it out” (Book of Hours, Berlin-Schmargendorf, 22.9.1899)
and repeated again and again: Being.
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