It is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." Whitman believed that a poet's thoughts were "hymns of praise" (1855 preface to Leaves of Grass) to things, and Rilke believed that a poet had to "win the confidence" (Letters to a Young Poet) of things. Both poets also felt that we have to reach a certain level before we truly experience life. Of course, both poets had different methods of achieving this - Whitman's method was to open oneself to the world - to nature, and to other people. By doing this, a person would almost automatically "transcend," and be able to experience life fully. Rilke's method was to remove our subconscious filters, thus becoming more like we were while still in the womb. .
Of course, Rilke's method was close to impossible, as he seemed to know, because he never offered any way to eliminate these filters. This is where Whitman's method is superior. Whitman presents a method of "transcendence" that involves closing one's eyes, lying in the grass, and experiencing the surrounding life. This is much easier (and probably more fun) than trying to figure out a way to revert to a state that we have no conscious memory of. It seems as though Rilke posed the problem, but could not solve it. Whitman posed the problem as well, but was able to answer it, half a century or so before Rilke even considered writing The Duino Elegies. If Rilke had been able to meet Whitman, would he have changed his philosophy? Would the Duino Elegies have become the Duino Revelries? Seeing as how Rilke had such a troubled life, as well as the fact that he was a rather dour German, probably not, but it still makes one think .
Whitman believed that the self was an amalgam of all people - alive or dead, good or bad - in the world.
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Her Mother tells about a mother who is sheered off by her daughter, Rani Bati. After Rani's leaving, she sent a letter to her mother. Rani's leaving is caused by norms restraint in her hometown, India. ... Rani does not want to be a common woman in India who just does house works and stay at home. ... That is also the reason why Rani decided to leave her home and migrate to America. ...
"There is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another. That it is work, day labor, day labor, God knows there is no other word for it (Rilke). A encountered by Rainer Mana Rilke in the essay "On Love". Love can't be taken for granted; it is a strong responsibility that has to be worked...
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Sharukh falls in love with Rani, and Kajol falls in love with Sharukh. ... He had already married Rani. ... Rani always used to ask Kajol how she felt, but she would never tell her. ... Later on, Rani dies after giving birth to a baby girl. ... After reading the whole story, Rani asked her daughter to do ANYTHING that will bring together Sharukh and Kajol. ...
Just as different languages use common features to carve up the world in generally similar ways " even though the languages are physically and historically isolated " so there appear certain parallels in the ways sound is employed in the very different literatures of the world Philosophy, aesthetics and poetry is a heady mixture, and many practioners would echo Rainer Maria Rilke in his "Letters to a Young Poet" : "But let me make this request right away: Read as little as possible of literary criticism " such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrifie...
On June 24th, 1947 while searching for the remains of a downed Marine C-46 transport, lost somewhere in the Mount Ranier area, a young Idahoan businessman named Kenneth Arnold spotted something that would change his life forever. ... Arnold discovered that in addition to his sighting there were several others in the Mount Ranier area that same day (Jackson 6). ...
The process of economic development has been usually seen as a transformation from the rural agricultural sector to the urban manufacturing sector in developing countries. This process in the dual sectors is driven by labor transfers (migration) and capital accumulation. W. Arthur Lewis in his work ...
