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    A Study Guide for Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood"
    A Study Guide for Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood"
    A Study Guide for Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood"
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    A Study Guide for Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood"

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    A Study Guide for Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535820691
    A Study Guide for Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood"

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      A Study Guide for Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood" - Gale

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      Childhood

      Rainer Maria Rilke

      1902

      Introduction

      Rainer Maria Rilke's Childhood is included in his collection Das Buch der Bilder, first published in 1902. Various writers have translated the volume as The Book of Images or The Book of Pictures. The poem can also be found in Robert Bly's collection of translations, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. The Book of Images was published just after The Book of Hours and just before New Poems and marks a shift in Rilke's poetic development toward more imagistic, slightly less sentimental verse. Written in thirty-three lines of rhymed iambic pentameter verse and fit into four irregular stanzas, Childhood addresses loneliness and the passage of time, typical subjects for Rilke, who spent his life attempting to describe the effects of time's onslaught. Rilke wrote a number of poems about childhood, including Duration of Childhood and The Child. All of these poems express feelings of wonder and bafflement and grapple with the puzzle of human existence. Childhood was a difficult time for Rilke. He was an effeminate and fragile child, and not at all cut out for the military schools to which his father

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