The poems employ a rich symbolism of angels and salvation but not in keeping with typical Christian interpretations. The Duino Elegies are intensely religious, mystical poems that weigh beauty and existential suffering. After their publication in 1923 and Rilke’s death in 1926, the Duino Elegies were quickly recognized by critics and scholars as his most important work. With a sudden, renewed inspiration-writing in a frantic pace he described as a “boundless storm, a hurricane of the spirit” he completed the collection in February 1922 while staying at Château de Muzot in Veyras, in Switzerland’s Rhone Valley. Aside from brief episodes of writing in 19, Rilke did not return to the work until a few years after the war ended. During this ten-year period, the elegies languished incomplete for long stretches of time as Rilke suffered frequently from severe depression-some of which was caused by the events of World War I and being conscripted into military service. The poems, 859 lines long in total, were dedicated to the Princess upon their publication in 1923. The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten elegies written by Rilke in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis (1855–1934) at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the Adriatic Sea.
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What does Phoebe Strole bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? I was a bit sad that, though I was excited that the author was talking about the place I live, it just felt so vague that I feel the information was maybe found by looking on Google Maps and not actual first hand experience. I just think it would have been nice to have actual knowledge of the area if your going to write about an real place! The landscape and places (again I get it's a work of fiction) we're just all wrong and didn't fit when you know all about the area that is being talked about. What could David Arnold have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?Īs someone who lives in Newport, Ky and who's parent's live in Independence, Ky (I understand this is a work of fiction), there were just several really wrong things used by the author to describe the area. All in all it was "ok" buy the end of it I just feel like it wasn't worth my time.as nothing that great happened. Though it waas odd and at times intriguing when I started it the whole time I was continuing through I always had this feeling that I wanted more.and the "more" never came. There was nothing that interesting that happened. I don't know that the events in the book warranted the writing of said book. Over all the book was "ok" but I just felt like there was not much to it as substance goes. What would have made Mosquitoland better? Not What I Expected.And Not In The Good Way. |