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Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"

The Daily Poem · Sean Johnson

December 4, 20236m 21s

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Show Notes

“Rilke’s most immediate and obvious influence has been upon diction and imagery. [He expressed ideas with] physical rather than intellectual symbols. While Shakespeare, for example, thought of the non-human world in terms of the human, Rilke thinks of the human in terms of the non-human, of what he calls Things.” -W.H. Auden



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