The Great PoetsKenneth WebbFebruary 08, 2025Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke 1875-1926, Austrian Poet, Letters to a Young Poet, It Was As Though a Girl Came ForthComment

RILKE ~ Das Rosen-Innere | Inside the Rose

The Great PoetsKenneth WebbFebruary 08, 2025Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke 1875-1926, Austrian Poet, Letters to a Young Poet, It Was As Though a Girl Came ForthComment

The Great Poets

Das Rosen-Innere | Inside the Rose

by

Rainer Maria Rilke (1926)

Author Note

The Great Poets

Poetry can go where sacred text never dares to tread. This realisation gave us the great poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Thus I have the Underpin for Visitation ~ Its Foundation and Visitation ~ the Revised Edition.

Poets have the freedom to enter that realm to which religious text hints, but many countries forbid any interpretation except that handed down by priests, imams, rabbis or whoever.

With the Agricultural Revolution in the 17th-19th centuries leading society into the even greater upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, the incontrovertible Word that reported literal knowledge slipped out of the hands of mystics and into the hands and minds of men and women who were well able to see beyond the whatever veil placed by mysticism, and then to question, to probe, and to enlighten.

Rilke had a great love for the Rose all of his life. Some might suggest an obsession. The subject is discussed beautifully in this link Rainer Maria Rilke ~ les Roses (1926) | Fluermach.

Inside the Rose is more than sublime poetry. This poem was written in 1926. It is brief when one considers his many other poems about the Rose. But the brevity suggests, perhaps, that final approach, when soul and spirit step quietly into that permanent realm, no less real than ours.

I am indebted to Frau Rita Schneeweiß for this translation, and more importantly, for introducing me to the Writings of Rilke, a long while ago now.

8 February 2025
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