The subtitle of Rilke's Leopard is in the Paris Botanical Garden.
Leopard is the work of Austrian poet Rilke. This is a poem about objects, and the poet's identity with the leopard reflects the leopard and the poet's own feeling of being imprisoned.
This is Rilke's early work in 193, which shows a different style from his later works, and basically adopts a realistic attitude to "objectively and faithfully describe" real life. The poem "Leopard" shows the poet's real feelings of depression, hesitation and seeking freedom without a way out through the anthropomorphic description of the leopard in the Paris Zoo.
leopards are famous for their ferocity, fierceness and agility in the animal world. They live freely in nature. But this leopard living in the Paris Zoo has lost its freedom. His eyes are so tired from the endless bars. The leopard tries to break through this cage and rush to the embrace of nature all the time. However, it is tightly bound by the endless iron fence, so its eyes have lost the edge of the bar and it appears "so tired" that "nothing can be taken in".
Evaluation of Works
The poet Auguste Shtal commented that "the loss of natural living space or the threat to it is an important topic at the turn of the century".
The critic Edgar Ness thinks that the characteristic is that the poet "narrates from the inner state of an animal as if he were the same with it". "The whole poem circles the essence of the leopard and depicts the hopeless boring and monotonous imagination".
Yuan Kejia, a translator, analyzed this poem and said, "It's not so much about describing the objective image of a leopard in an iron cage, but rather that the poet is expressing his feelings about the leopard, and it can even be said that he used the leopard's situation to express his feelings at that time".