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Charles XII of Sweden
Charles XII
also: Karl XII
Charles XII (1682--1718), warrior-king of Sweden, decisively defeated by Russia at Poltava in the Ukraine in 1709; Rilke imagines him riding entranced through the battle, awake to the soul of things and blind to the dead.
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- The Book of Images §52 young king from the North
Charles XII of Sweden, the warrior-king beaten by Russia at Poltava in the Ukraine (1709); Rilke's poem shows him riding entranced through the battle, awakened to the soul of things and blind to the carnage.
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