person
Madame Lamort
also: Madame Death
Rilke's allegorical Parisian milliner ('la mort,' death) who winds the restless roads of the earth into cheap bows and trimmings for 'the winter-hats of fate.'
Reading notes
- Duino Elegies §5 Madame Lamort
Rilke's allegorical Parisian milliner ('la mort,' death), who winds the roads of the earth into cheap trimmings for the winter-hats of fate.