German Studies Lecture Series: Rilke鈥檚 Sonette an Orpheus and How Things Are featured lecture by William Waters (German Studies and Comparative Literature, Boston University)
Date
Tue November 14th 2023, 12:00 - 1:15pm
Event Sponsor
Department of German Studies
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane 素人色情片 Way, Building 260, 素人色情片, CA 94305
room 216
450 Jane 素人色情片 Way, Building 260, 素人色情片, CA 94305
room 216
The Department of German Studies invites you to join us for a featured lecture:
Rilke鈥檚 poetry is singularly elusive. The 鈥淭hings鈥 so prominent in the Neue Gedichte鈥,&苍产蝉辫;Rodin鈥,&苍产蝉辫;and Malte鈥 may be better described as insubstantial traces, mere trails of time. Inversely, as it seems, the timeless mythic-pastoral landscape of the Sonette an Orpheus (the work I will emphasize here) sports such obtrusive material realities of the age as factories, electric glare and airplanes. And yet the Sonnets too sketch the delicacy of existence; the world is given but cannot be confirmed, any more than a poem can.
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