Drawing on the contemporaneous theories of Sigmund Freud and the artistic visions of the sculptor, Auguste Rodin, and the Impressionist painter, Paul Cézanne, recurring themes in Rilke’s poems include roses, angels and the need to discover the raison d’être of the artist’s life.Īnd thus, his correspondence with Kappus, one that would last from 1902 to 1908, would crystallize Rilke’s aesthetic and philosophical sensibilities over the course of ten letters, with advice ranging from loneliness, sexuality, Nature, and the need to trust one’s own inner judgement. Rilke was one of the most significant poets in the German language his work often focuses on an individual’s yearning for communion with one’s innermost self, written at a time when mankind was plagued with nihilistic and chaotic interpretations of the world. He decided to contact an alumnus of the academy, the Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). At the turn of the last century, a 19-year-old student at the Military Academy of Vienna, named Franz Kappus, wanted career advice on his impending secondment to the armed forces, as well as a literary critique on a handful of poems he had recently composed.
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