{"id":1126,"date":"2024-06-25T18:54:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T22:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/?post_type=podcast&p=1126"},"modified":"2024-06-26T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:14:36","slug":"fourth-elegy","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/podcast\/fourth-elegy","title":{"rendered":"Reading with Rilke: The Fourth Elegy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Angel and Puppet: then, finally, the play begins” Bianca Stone in conversation with poet Peter Gizzi discussing Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Fourth Elegy,” (Edward Snow translation). We’re working our way though the entire Duino Elegies. In today’s episode we begin by discussing the elegy form and both Gizzi’s personal uses of the form, as well as discussions on how we see Rilke using the traditional and nontraditional elegy motifs. Another intensely resonant discussion in this episode is on persona<\/em> in poetry: the “I” and self. As always, our uses of autobiography, collective consciousness, self-mythologizing and greater unknowability of Mind is at work in these discussions. We look at Rilke’s anger towards the “half-filled mask” of humanity and his preference of the full puppet, and the acknowledgment of the performance–all the while in a kind of strange conversation with the angel beside it. It seems a self-knowledge and embrace of the unknowability of the nature of existence is important. Rilke’s prime medium is language, and here the poetic opportunity in the performance IS the poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Gizzi’s webstie: https:\/\/www.petergizzi.org\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out his newest book, Fierce Elegy: https:\/\/www.weslpress.org\/9780819500687\/fierce-elegy\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that we’re now also including video of the conversation! Available on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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