rainer maria rilke, an Austrian poet. A man of the hour in the field of poetry, his poems were once deeply loved by poetry lovers. The early works have distinct Prague local color and Bohemian folk flavor. After traveling all over Europe in 1897, he changed his early romantic style, which focused on subjective lyricism, and wrote "poems about things" which symbolized life and expressed his thoughts and feelings with intuitive images. Protest against the "alienation" of capitalism, and put forward a utopian vision for equality and mutual love of human beings.
2. Character influence
Rene Maria Rilke is regarded as one of the greatest German poets in the 2th century, and is regarded as the three greatest poets in modern Europe with Ye Zhi and Eliot.
Rilke's existential poetic thoughts have deeply influenced the later existential masters Heidegger and Sartre, which can be said to be a poetic source of existentialism.
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.