Rilkes Hands: An Essay on Gentleness Schweizer Harold
Rilkes Hands: An Essay on Gentleness Schweizer Harold This is a book of meditative reading. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness,…
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Rilkes Hands: An Essay on Gentleness Schweizer Harold
This is a book of meditative reading. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, hands--agents of gentleness throughout Rilke's poetry--enfold these pages. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke's poetry as a musician might play Debussy's Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke's gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer.The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book.
The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the
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