god
Death
also: der Tod
Death as a recurring personified figure in Rilke; here the visitor who waits at both gates of the lovers' house, and in the postscript the giver of the strange seed that flowers, at last, as a new acceptance of dying.
Reading notes
- The Book of Images §4 Death
Rilke's recurring figure of one's own death, carried secretly within and ripening there; here it crouches inside the knight's armor, longing for the blade that will release it.
- The Book of Hours §20 Death
Death as one of the two notes between which the self is the silent rest; the song stays beautiful only because life and death, ill at ease together, are reconciled trembling in a 'dark interval.'
- New Poems: The Other Part §20 the rib-braided dancer
Death as the partner in the medieval Totentanz, his ribs like braided trim; he completes each dancer into a 'whole pair' and slips the bookmarks from the nun's Book of Hours.
- Duino Elegies §6 gardening Death
Death as a gardener who bends the veins of those destined to die young, the heroes among them.
- Early Poems §46 Death
Death, here personified, standing already at the door of the dying-room as autumn fades.
- Early Poems §153 death went red
Death walking, personified, red in the sunset through the beloved's dream-country -- the close of the long 'land of sorrow' vision.
- Stories of God §109 death
Death personified, the visitor who waits at both gates of the lovers' house.
Mentioned in 12 works (121 mentions)
Two Stories of Prague
Stories of God
The Book of Hours
Auguste Rodin
New Poems
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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