LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 11 November 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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In the Matrix of the Divine: Approaches to Godhead in Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Tennyson’s In Memoriam

Bibhudutt Dash, M.Phil.

Angels and the Characterization of the Divine

This essay focuses on and makes a comparative study of the critically important roles the angels play in the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies (1923) and God in Tennyson’s In Memoriam (1850), thus examining the poets’ approaches to the ‘divine’ in the scheme of the works. Both the angels and God supercharge the poems’ locale, thereby serving as a backdrop to the portrayal of ontological concerns. On both the canvases, the ‘divine’ is painted in a somewhat grim light, in that, the apprehended apathy of the divine stands as an austere counterpoint to its innate benign properties.

Duino Elegies - An Impassioned Monologue

An impassioned monologue about coming to terms with human existence, Duino Elegies is marked by a mystical sense of God and death. In a cycle of ten elegies, Rilke translates the theme of solitude to an existential plane, attempts to penetrate into the essential nature of phenomena and soars to great metaphysical heights.

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Bibhudutt Dash, M.Phil.
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Department of English
SCS College
Puri
Odisha, India
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