Poetry for Students

Volume 19 43 show the young Rilke’s swerve away from the so- cial concerns with which he had flirted to the aes- thetic vision o ...

44 Poetry for Students short stories we have from his hand.” Annuschka, a simple-minded country girl leading a wretched life as ...

Volume 19 45 Schnüre fest in der Faust” (And he is already mounted on his steed / and gallops into the night. Bloody cords held ...

46 Poetry for Students in seiner Glorie?’ ” (“Has he beheld the sea or God, the Eternal Being, in His glory?”), to which Baum co ...

Volume 19 47 into German as Das Jahrhundert des Kindes, 1902; translated into English as The Century of the Child, 1909), with i ...

48 Poetry for Students one of his conquests) tell him that Don Juan was an innocent babe in comparison to him. Clara and Ruth br ...

Volume 19 49 of his childhood in Denmark—a childhood of dra- matic and terrifying scenes: the death of his pater- nal grandfathe ...

50 Poetry for Students Malte’s father but even in the comical tale of Niko- laj Kusmitsch, Malte’s neighbor in Petersburg, who, ...

Volume 19 51 The post-Maltetime was marked by flurries of frantic travel: to North Africa in the autumn of 1910; to Egypt in the ...

52 Poetry for Students Baladine Klossowska, that he needed to be alone, cared for only by his competent housekeeper, Frida Baumg ...

Volume 19 53 Further Reading Baron, Frank, Ernst S. Dick, and Warren R. Mauer, eds., Rilke: The Alchemy of Alienation, Regents P ...

The Cinnamon Peeler Michael Ondaatje first published “The Cinnamon Peeler” in 1982 as part of his book Running in the Family. “T ...

Volume 19 55 Author Biography Michael Ondaatje was born on September 12, 1943, in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After his par ...

56 Poetry for Students in detail, which areas of the woman’s body would smell of cinnamon dust. In addition to referencing the w ...

Volume 19 57 wants to emphasize his desire to his wife in a sym- bolic sense, as if it is literally a scent that can be noticed ...

58 Poetry for Students husband, and the poem once again focuses on a part of the woman’s anatomy, her belly. The speaker’s wife ...

Volume 19 59 cinnamon in the poem, not to mention the reference to the cinnamon-peeler profession. Cinnamon is na- tive to Sri L ...

60 Poetry for Students play a huge part in the spice trade. Sri Lanka has been synonymous with the Eastern spice trade for thous ...

Volume 19 61 woman.” In this structure, “The Cinnamon Peeler” falls within the fourth and final section, “Skin Boat,” which Sole ...

62 Poetry for Students depth, and is using his poem’s structure to heighten this effect. In the second half of the poem, Ondaatj ...