Poetry for Students

Volume 19 23 from Morocco,” the sci-fi paperback a homeless man is reading. By fixing the names of these ob- jects in the sound- ...

24 Poetry for Students moment, are not closed-off spaces but just eddies in the flow, nodes in the network. The traditional sonn ...

Volume 19 25 as the closing couplet in a traditional sonnet), we are reminded that there is presently more at work than time and ...

26 Poetry for Students poetry, with mileage, with dates and time periods, the length of time, for instance, between the diag- no ...

Volume 19 27 Originally published in 1947, this classic book is the account of a young Jewish girl living in hiding from the Naz ...

Childhood Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Childhood” is included in his collection Das Buch der Bilder, first published in 1902. Various w ...

Volume 19 29 only child of Josef Rilke, a minor railway official, and Sophie Entz Rilke. In 1897, Rilke changed his name to Rain ...

30 Poetry for Students Poem Summary Stanza 1 “Childhood” begins with the speaker address- ing a child who is in school, describi ...

Volume 19 31 being anxious, then happy, and then mournful to il- lustrate the rapid emotional changes that occur in childhood. I ...

32 Poetry for Students reflects on the child’s being suddenly thrown into the adult world, lamenting, “What crazy mourning, what ...

Volume 19 33 childhood desires—a son for his mother, a daugh- ter for her father—that developed into neurotic symptoms in adulth ...

34 Poetry for Students previous selves. “Childhood” is representative in tone and theme of Rilke’s poetry, as it laments both ch ...

Volume 19 35 a month here or there. When he was not renting a cheap room in a run-down section of a city such as Paris, he would ...

36 Poetry for Students The poem begins with a confusion of opposites, with the first three lines expressing the boredom and ennu ...

Volume 19 37 There are certainly idyllic moments in this poem. The sudden release of a child from school, the joys of parks and ...

38 Poetry for Students of Rilke’s birth was a railroad official—a job per- haps owed to the influence of Josef’s well-to-do el- ...

Volume 19 39 Gedichte(Crowned with Dreams, 1897), contain- ing some turgid but striking erotic poems, and he was already a busy ...

40 Poetry for Students asNot Present in Nine Plays,1979), with its Maeterlinckian suggestions of ineffable fears, but it conclud ...

Volume 19 41 Bohusch shows Rezek a hiding place for the lat- ter’s group; simultaneously, he falls into fantasies of his own pow ...

42 Poetry for Students of silences onstage), Bang summons the courage to tell Holzer that the latter will destroy Helene with hi ...