Yes–the springtimes needed you. Often a star was waiting for you to notice it.
A wave rolled toward you out of the distant past,or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing.
All this was mission. But could you accomplish it?
Weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved?
(Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you
going and coming and often staying all night.)
First Elegie. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Pingback by Posts about Violins as of October 29 | Discount Violins — October 30, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
The motif and imagery of violins/swans in symbolist and early modern poetry.
Discuss.
Comment by Leopold — October 30, 2009 @ 7:42 pm
All that seductive personification.
The springtime, stars and sea yearning for “you”. Music yielding to “you”. Expectation. Pronouncement. “inside you going and coming and often staying all night”.
I bet the pants charmed themselves off whoever this poem was written for.
Comment by Adhominem — October 31, 2009 @ 7:51 am