<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ac6c24ee-e9e7-421a-aa9d-80297532deef/C1B94F6F-8466-4311-84B1-9569BF399DE1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com/Articles/article/Poetry_Love_Eros_Beauty_Spirit/RainerMariaRilke-DuinoElegies.html" href="http://www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com/Articles/article/Poetry_Love_Eros_Beauty_Spirit/RainerMariaRilke-DuinoElegies.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com/Articles/article/Poetry_Love_Eros_Beauty_Spirit/RainerMariaRilke-DuinoElegies.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com/img/850E1B0C-5DF0-4510-BF9A-92F456EB5F14" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com/Articles/article/Poetry_Love_Eros_Beauty_Spirit/RainerMariaRilke-DuinoElegies.html">An elegy is a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, e.g., a funeral song or a lament for the dead. The Duino Elegies was written by Rilke under the influence of a powerful overwhelming creative inspiration, as was most of his poetry. D</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com/Articles/article/Poetry_Love_Eros_Beauty_Spirit/RainerMariaRilke-DuinoElegies.html"><P><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><STRONG>Table of Contents</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><O:P></O:P></p> <P><SPAN> <P><A href="#freedoms"><STRONG><SPAN>Notes from 4 Freedoms and Wikipedia</SPAN></STRONG></A></p> </SPAN></p> <P><SPAN> <P><A href="#one"><STRONG><SPAN>The First Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 3</SPAN></STRONG></p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#two"><STRONG><SPAN>The Second Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 7</SPAN></STRONG></p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#three"><STRONG><SPAN>The Third Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 11</SPAN></STRONG></p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#four"><STRONG><SPAN>The Fourth Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 15</SPAN></STRONG></p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#five"><STRONG><SPAN>The Fifth Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 19</SPAN></STRONG> </p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#six"><STRONG><SPAN>The Sixth Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 24</SPAN></STRONG></p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#seven"><STRONG><SPAN>The Seventh Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 26</SPAN></STRONG></p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#eight"><STRONG><SPAN>The Eighth Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 30</SPAN></STRONG></p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#nine"><STRONG><SPAN>The Ninth Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 34</SPAN></STRONG> </p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#ten"><STRONG><SPAN>The Tenth Elegy</SPAN></STRONG></A><STRONG><SPAN>. 38</SPAN></STRONG></p> </SPAN> <SPAN> <P><A href="#notes"><STRONG><SPAN>Notes. 45</SPAN></STRONG></A></P></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com/Articles/article/Poetry_Love_Eros_Beauty_Spirit/RainerMariaRilke-DuinoElegies.html"><SPAN>uino is the name of a castle near </SPAN><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on"><SPAN>Trieste</SPAN></ST1:CITY><SPAN>, </SPAN><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><SPAN>Italy</SPAN></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE><SPAN>, the location where Rilke experienced the inspiration to write them.</SPAN><O:P></O:P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sexyspiritualrelationships.com/Articles/article/Poetry_Love_Eros_Beauty_Spirit/RainerMariaRilke-DuinoElegies.html"><SPAN>Rilke said later he had heard a voice calling to him as he walked near the cliffs, and he had used its words as the opening of the first Elegy: "Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?" 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