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lives as well. Each person has different perspectives or views in their lives.
contrast, some people can be sad and depress by looking too. Looking
can be the beginning of some peoples lives also. There is one person of
life. In this poem, the poet main focus is to describe how his previous
vision and the impact of his new found perspective will affect his style in
the future and the description of his development as a poet. The poem is
written at the third person which is a tool use by many poets in order to
distance themselves from the speaker or to diverge from the poem itself.
But, it is obvious that the person narrating is Rilke himself. Rainer Maria
by eyes. He also explains the things that he cannot look by his eyes and
finally realizes that he needs to look at himself too. This poem describes
the focus and the power of the observation of our world and the transition
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that Rilke is subjected in order to bring his vision and inspiration from
First of all, the poem starts with a quote from the philosopher Rudolf
Kassner who is a friend of Rilke( Foundation Rilke, n.d). The quote talk
about a time in which Rilke is enlighten and change the way that he sees
the world exterior in order to focus on the observation from within. This is
the start of his new era of inspiration. The poem is composing of two
mains part in which each of the part Rilke describe his own and new
inspiration. The first part from the beginning until the end of fifth stanza.
This is the long part of the poem in which Rilke assess his old way of
seeing thing, his former perspective and the way that his poems were
written until the creation of this poem. The second part of this poem which
start at the sixth stanza until the end, describe his revelation and the
description of the new intension and the change that he will make in his
upcoming poems.
in his life. He compares the things that people want so much such as
stars. This is because stars stay in the sky so it is very hard to get because
everyone have somethings that they wish in their life, and they have to
attempt to fulfill their wish. According to the poem Stars would fall to
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their knees beneath his compelling vision. (Rilke, 1913-1918, p.133) This
sentence can describe as when the poet is looking inside his soul and
discover why he loves someone so much and his intense desire for her.
Therefore, it might be that the narrator has a secret love affair with
someone and asks himself the question of why he loves her so much. In
the stars and towers are seen as a similar way to go to meet his secret
From the reader perspective, the narrator has inspiration from Rapunzel
Rapunzel is used to paint the picture of the towers which is the pathway
(Rilke, 1913-1918, p.133). The narrator waits until night time in order to
meet her. The last symbol is animals. Rainer Maria Rilke use animals to
detected by his eyes. There is many information in peoples lives that they
can control or make sure about it. Some actions or behaviors of every
people cannot confirm the results as rumors. Rumors is one things that
human cannot know or confirm if the nature is true or false because there
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are not sufficient evidences. Rumors can make people for imagining many
things in their lives. For instance, According to the poem one more the
room, and later from the tormenting bed. (Rilke, 1913-1918, p.135). In
this paragraph, it can express that he is happy with his affair and he is
overlooking the feelings of his wife. Overtime, he fears that someday his
wife will know about his mistake or he starts to feel guilty and is conscious
people have to make some mistakes in their lives in order to learn and
everyone always thinks about the results. There are many things in their
lives that they do not see by their eyes but they believe and feel guilty
about it. Thus, the narrator uses the rumors as symbols of invisible things
that cannot be seen by the eyes but people can know and there are
looking into himself. The poem wants to tell that the important thing of
looking in peoples lives is not looking at other things only but people
should be looking at themselves also. This is the reason why most people
some people never criticize or look at themselves. In this poem, the poet
wants to inform that when people looking at themselves more, they will
improve and fix their mistake. According to the poet, by just looking at the
outer world, there are limitation upon the sight. By looking at oneself
love. Love is like the wind, it is a feeling, not something that can be seen.
The poet also means that sometime you see the world and your brain
capture the image of it on all the images imprisoned within you. (Rilke,
(Rilke, 1913-1918, p.135) --in which he means it doesnt matter how hard
person has different goals or intension same as Rainer Maria Rilke. He wants
to change intension of his life from his experience that happens in his life.
of people or his wife and the last symbol is rumor as invisible things or
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overlooking. Finally, the poet uses the imaginary through this poem to tell
Reference
Mitchell, Trans.) .
http://www.biography.com/people/wilhelm-grimm-21085173#grimms-
fairy-tales
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm012a.html
Turning point =
Intensity = hard