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Article: Images of Absence: Death and the Language of Concealment in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2008
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Images of Absence: Death and the Language of Concealment in the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. By Marielle Sutherland. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 164) Berlin: Weidler. 2006. 302 pp. 944. ISBN 978-389693-461-1.
One can hardly think of a topic more central to the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke than death. Contemplations of death haunt his work from the early poems and Malte LauridsBrigge to his very late elegies and final poems. This fact may not be surprising for a poet constantly contemplating the transcendent realm and man's relationshipto it, but the development of his thinking on this topic may not be so evident. Is death a threshold to ...