person
Jeremiah
also: Jeremias
The 'weeping prophet' of Judah, called against his will while still almost a boy, whose mouth became a wound bleeding 'year of calamity upon year of calamity.' Rilke's 'Jeremias' is his complaint to the God who overpowered him.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §13 Once I was soft as early wheat
Jeremiah, the reluctant prophet of Judah, whose voice 'from the very beginning was a howling' of disaster on his own people.
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