The Quest For Truth and Authenticity in Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Panther”
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The opaque poetic language of Rainer Maria Rilke as a symbolist writer facilitates the reader to elicit diverse interpretations from his poems and refabricate their meaning as befitting. Rilke’s poem “The Panther”, is highly recognized as a prominent symbolic modernist work, showcasing Rilke’s profound insight into the human condition and the intricacies of existence. By adopting the framework of existentialism and relying on the symbolic language of the poem, this paper tries to transcend the poem’s literal meaning and bring up the possibility of considering “The Panther” as a symbol of modern human questing for truth and authenticity in the backdrop of modernity.
Author: Mohammad Reza Zare
Institution: Arak University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405373848