person
Eurydice
also: Eurydike
Wife of Orpheus, twice-lost to the underworld when he turns to look; in Rilke she is so wholly given to death that she no longer knows him.
Reading notes
- New Poems §70 given over to his left hand
Eurydice, so wholly given to her death that she no longer knows Orpheus; at the words 'He has turned around' she only asks, softly: Who?
- The Sonnets to Orpheus §39 Eurydice
Orpheus's wife, lost twice to the underworld; 'Be always dead in Eurydice' makes her the threshold by which the singer must pass into the realm of the dead and back.