Rilke : Duino Elegies, elegy #8

[jomo]

thanks for note!

I appreciate your compliment!

for me the poem is a kind-of response to the idea that Man is the highest pinnacle of life here.
I say Man specifically in the sense that it might have been meant at the time, that "this is a Man's world"

animals are presented as being in the open, something that modern culture has alienated us from. so we are are 'turned around' facing the past, the known.

and thus the nostalgia for something deep and without words, really.

thanks again for reading!

I deeply appreciate it