The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Summary
Rainer Maria Rilke

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Summary

Narrator

This is most exceptional character. It is a literary device. At the same time, this provides a fulcrum to the poetry itself. Here, reader meets writer and vice versa. The character of the narrative voice is flexible. It is individual in each poem. The first example of its appearance as a grammatical entity, per se, is in the very first poem of the book. "I am, O Anxious one. Don't you hear my...

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