Duino Elegies changed by the harm she's

changed by the harm she's witnessed--inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other

this dizzying

most of all

and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured darker forces at play

Duino Elegies changed by the harm she'sRainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) is one of Germany's major Modernist poets, notable for the lyric intensity of his work. He considered the Duino Elegies a cycle of ten poems written in inspirational bursts between 1912 and 1922 to be his major achievement. The restless movement of these poems reflects his lifelong struggle to reconcile the dichotomies of joy and suffering, life and death, masculine and feminine, that ruled his life. They remain powerful