From 65438 to 0897, Rilke met the female writer Lu Andreas Salome, went to Russia twice together, and met lev tolstoy. Photo album (1902) and prayer book (1905) are works of this period, with strong feelings and concise language, forming a unique style. Prayer Book is Rilke's famous work, which is divided into three parts: the life of a monk, pilgrimage, poverty and death. It praises simplicity and God, shows the author's pantheism, and also reflects the spiritual contradiction during the decline of the bourgeoisie.
190 1 year, Rilke married the female sculptor Clara westhoff. 1905 Meet Rodin and serve as Rodin's secretary. During this period, influenced by French symbolist poets Baudelaire, Wetland, Malarme and others, his poems were no longer the romantic style of expressing subjective feelings in the early days, but wrote many "event poems" symbolizing life and expressing thoughts and feelings, which were included in New Poetry Collection (1907) and New Poetry Sequel (1908). Among them, the short poem Leopard is the most popular, which implicitly expresses the author's confusion, hesitation and anguish when exploring the meaning of life.
19 12, Rilke went to Duinau on the Adriatic coast and began to write the famous dirge of Duinau (1923). At this time, the serious social and economic crisis in capitalist countries and the outbreak of World War I made him more pessimistic and disappointed. 1922 completed the Elegy of Duinau and Sonnet for orpheus (1923). Rilke's life at this stage is full of pain, and he is thinking about the meaning of life. "Elegy of Duinau" and "Sonnets of orpheus" are the products of this painful thinking. The former has 10 elegy, which is aimed at the problems such as whether the existence of the world is reasonable and the relationship between life and death, happiness and pain. He believes that the world is full of suffering and life is empty, and only death is the liberation and eternal happiness of mankind. The latter allegorized the poet's hopeless pursuit of the meaning of life through the story that the singer orpheus couldn't find his wife in the underworld in Greek mythology. Both poems use many metaphors and obscure symbolic words.
In addition, he also wrote many short stories and novellas. In the collection of prose poems, The Song of Love and Death by Christopher Rilke, the flag-bearer (1906), the hero, the young flag-bearer, experienced his first love during the Hungarian anti-Turkish invasion and finally died in battle, expressing his yearning for "heroic achievements". The long diary novel The Notes of Matt Laurits Briggs (19 10) describes the memories and confessions of a lonely and sensitive young Danish poet, which is a portrayal of the author himself. He exposed poverty, disease and moral corruption in Paris and showed his fear of life. This work is different from traditional storytelling. There is no continuous plot, no chronological order, childhood memories, immediate scenes and fantasies about the future are intertwined. This novel is an important material for studying the author and even the modern bourgeois world outlook and literary view.
Rilke was a famous writer in the western literary and intellectual circles in the first half of the 20th century. Most of his works are full of loneliness, sadness, anxiety, panic and nihilism, and he has also made some explorations and innovations in art. ..
Rilke died in/kloc-0 on February 29th, 926.