Celebrar ou Lamentar: Rilke
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The present essay approaches the poetry of Rainer Marie Rilke beyond the readings which define him as an hermetic or even mystic poet. It tries to expose how Rilke’s poetic process seems to be an attempt to grasp the constitutive emptiness of the word. It shows how Rilke declares a propriety of death as necessary part of the process of grasping. It also tries to show how the poet’s project, here called esoteric, bumps up against a limit: exactly the declaration of a propriety of death in the same moment in which the poet intends to become a thing, an object. Therefore, it demonstrates how Rilke realizes the emptiness that constitutes the human without, however, go on with this idea. It concludes that the poetry of Rilke becomes a regret for the loss of the propriety of death and even of the human.
Source: Anuário de Literatura
Author: Vinícius Nicastro Honesko
Institution: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2066499802