place
Bohemia
also: Böhmen, Čechy
The Czech kingdom whose capital is Prague; for Rezek the homeland the cosmopolitan artists have abandoned for an imported 'primal wellspring of life.'
Reading notes
- The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke §5 Bohemian
Bohemia, the Czech lands of the Empire, here named for its castles among the riders' homelands.
- Early Poems §25 Bohemia
The historic land around Prague, Rilke's homeland (German Böhmen, Czech Cechy); the poem imagines God shaping it in a good humor.
- Two Stories of Prague §37 at home in Bohemia
Bohemia, the Czech homeland; Rezek's complaint is that the artists are spiritually 'no longer here,' having exchanged their country for a borrowed cosmopolitan nowhere.