Possibility and Loss in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Part 2)

17/02/2025 39 min
Possibility and Loss in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Part 2)

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Wes & Erin continue their discussion of Rainer Maria Rilke's “You Who Never Arrived" and “Be Ahead of All Parting” (II.13 from his “Sonnets to Orpheus”), and whether—as Rilke suggests—death can be put in service of life, and suffering sourced as the principal wellspring of a joyful existence.

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