tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post5595913370202786680..comments2023-07-21T05:31:02.451+02:00Comments on A Year with Rilke: The Island (II)Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-91235216072254270822011-07-09T04:11:50.730+02:002011-07-09T04:11:50.730+02:00The Island I & II both uncommonly brilliant
...The Island I & II both uncommonly brilliant <br /><br />joannyjoannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03338150531816845279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-27216166885662520902011-07-08T23:39:58.933+02:002011-07-08T23:39:58.933+02:00Beautiful imagery. I love the Zen quality of the ...Beautiful imagery. I love the Zen quality of the solitary sheep, silhouetted and motionless on the distant dike.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-19738225522274413622011-07-08T21:00:06.232+02:002011-07-08T21:00:06.232+02:00The poem's landscape-- where life must stir it...The poem's landscape-- where life must stir itself, call itself to perceive and to respond. This reminds me a bit of Bly's early work in silence in the snowy fields...xxxjJenne' R. Andrews https://www.blogger.com/profile/15744946229300234443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-24630712920524681882011-07-08T14:44:28.747+02:002011-07-08T14:44:28.747+02:00Now that is so beautiful. Isn't it wonderful h...Now that is so beautiful. Isn't it wonderful how Rilke embraces with his gaze orphans, beggars, the mentally ill, the crooked, those on the margins? To draw from that harmonica 'a sound as soft as weeping' - very touching and poignant. Love the imagistic nature of this poem.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.com