Again and Again
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From the Book of Hours
This short lyric appears in Rilke’s collection The Book of Hours and presents a repeated, intimate scene of two lovers walking beneath ancient trees, lying among flowers, and confronting a churchyard’s quiet sorrow. Its tone balances tenderness and awareness of mortality. The poem exemplifies Rilke’s recurring meditations on love and life, placing a private, recurring ritual against the larger presence of loss and the unknowable abyss.
Read Complete AnalysesAgain and again, however we know the landscape of love and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names, and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others fall: again and again the two of us walk out together under the ancient trees, lie down again and again among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
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