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The Department of German Studies invites you to join us for a featured lecture:

Rilke’s poetry is singularly elusive. The “Things” so prominent in the Neue Gedichte​,&�Բ�����;Rodin​,&�Բ�����;and Malte​ may be better described as insubstantial traces, mere trails of time. Inversely, as it seems, the timeless mythic-pastoral landscape of the Sonette an Orpheus (the work I will emphasize here) sports such obtrusive material realities of the age as factories, electric glare and airplanes. And yet the Sonnets too sketch the delicacy of existence; the world is given but cannot be confirmed, any more than a poem can. 

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