RAINER MARIA RILKE poem LATE AUTUMN IN VENICE English text
Rainer Maria Rilke
Late Autumn In Venice
(Spätherbst in Venedig)
German poetry
translated into English
Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist.
Rainer Maria Rilke is “widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets“.
Rainer Maria Rilke wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke’s work as inherently “mystical” (from: wikipedia).
His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence (An example can be found in yeye book, here, poem: “Letters to a young poet”).
Rainer Maria Rilke tackles themes deeply existential themes that position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Late Autumn In Venice
German poetry
translated into English
The city floats no longer like a bait
To hook the nimble darting summer days.
The glazed and brittle palaces pulsate and radiate
And glitter. Summer’s garden sways,
A heap of marionettes hanging down and dangled,
Leaves tired, torn, turned upside down and strangled:
Until from forest depths, from bony leafless trees
A will wakens: the admiral, lolling long at ease,
Has been commanded, overnight — suddenly –:
In the first dawn, all galleys put to sea!
Waking then in autumn chill, amid the harbor medley,
The fragrance of pitch, pennants aloft, the butt
Of oars, all sails unfurled, the fleet
Awaits the great wind, radiant and deadly.
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