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The Miletus torso (c. 480–470 BC) at the Louvre has been suggested as the poem's subject. "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (German: Archaïscher Torso Apollos) is a sonnet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke, published in the collection New Poems in 1908. It opens the collection's second part and is a companion piece to "Early Apollo", which ...
You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense is a 2002 book by John Lysaker in which the author provides a philosophical treatment of poetry through an interlocution between Martin Heidegger and Charles Simic. The title is derived from the poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke. According to Lysaker, his ...
Miletus Torso, 5th-4th centuries BC, Louvre (possible inspiration for 'Archaic Torso of Apollo') Following research, Rilke's long-neglected collection (compared to his later works, such as the Duino Elegies or the Sonnets to Orpheus), has in the last decades arrived at a re-appraisal. Within his oeuvre, the New Poems were now regarded as his ...
Since [the poem's publication], that last line has inspired reams of analysis and debate—is it a lament? Is it a joke, a kind of boast? Did Wright intend to undercut or to bolster his pastoral scene with it? Could it be a winking response to Rilke, whose "Archaic Torso of Apollo" concludes with the imperative "You must change your life"? [1]
Pages in category "Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Archaic Torso of Apollo; B. The Book of Hours; The ...
The book's title comes from the final line of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo". Sloterdijk describes it as the "absolute imperative—the quintessential metanoetic command". [ 3 ]
Twentieth-century examples include Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo", [8] and The Shield of Achilles (1952), a poem by W. H. Auden, [5] which brings the tradition back to its start with an ironic retelling of the episode in Homer (see above), where Thetis finds very different scenes from
Pages in category "1908 poems" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Archaic Torso of Apollo; The Austra-laise; G. The Gate of the Year; M ...