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Don Juan
The legendary Spanish libertine and seducer; in the paired poems 'Don Juan's Childhood' and 'Don Juan's Election' Rilke gives him an Angel's commission, not mere appetite, leading women toward solitude.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §65 the bow that does not break on women
Don Juan as a boy: the seducer's curve already latent in his slenderness, before appetite, the weeping child becoming the admired man.
- New Poems: The Other Part §66 those whom I have assigned you
The Angel commissions Don Juan: his seductions are made a vocation, leading the women assigned him toward the solitude with the deep entrance.
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