What's so good about Rilke's poems?

1, Rilke's poems are full of loneliness, pain and pessimism, but they have high artistic attainments. It not only shows the beauty of music and sculpture of poetry, but also expresses some contents that are difficult to express, which expands the artistic expression field of poetry and has a great influence on the development of modern poetry.

2. Profile of people

Lai Na Maria Lai Na Maria Rilke (1875 ~ 1926) is an Austrian poet and the greatest German poet in the 20th century. Born in a railway worker's family, he studied philosophy, art and literary history in college. After 1897, I traveled all over Europe with loneliness. I met Tolstoy and worked as a secretary for the great sculptor Rodin, deeply influenced by French symbolist poet Baudelaire and others. He was drafted into the army during World War I and moved to Switzerland after 19 19.

Rilke's early works have distinct Prague local color and Bohemian folk song flavor. Such as life and poetry (1894) and dreams (1897). But the content emphasizes mystery, dream and sadness. After traveling in Europe, he changed his early romantic style with subjective lyricism, wrote an "object poem" symbolizing life and expressing his thoughts and feelings with intuitive images, protested against the "alienation" of capitalism, and put forward a utopian vision of equality and mutual love among human beings.

3. Main works

He is the author of poetry anthology Life and Song (1894), Sacrifice to God (1896) and Dream (1897).

Advent (1898), photo album (1902), prayer book (1905), new poetry anthology (1907),

The sequel of New Poetry (1908), Elegy of Douineau (1923) and Sonnet for orpheus (1923).