Author: Livia Di Vona

The esoteric Rilke of the "Sonnets to Orpheus"

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Composed in February 1922 as a funeral monument to Wera Ouckama Knoop, a young woman who passed away at the premature age of nineteen, the "Sonnets a Orpheus" by the Austrian poet of Bohemian origin Rainer Maria Rilke still speak to us today, after a century, in the "Language of eternity in which the dead make themselves a gift by nourishing the earth", revealing to us the indissoluble intertwining between death and life.

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Empedocles according to Hรถlderlin: rise, decline and redemption of the Poet

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In Friedrich Hรถlderin's "Death of Empedocles", a tragedy composed at the end of the XNUMXth century, the poet analyzes the drama of human solitude, the silence of Nature and the Gods, the unsolvable tension between aorgic and organic and the constant struggle of the individual so as not to be shipwrecked in the universal indistinct.

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