Eve
Eve - meaning Summary
Innocence Choosing Mortal Love
Rilke’s poem presents Eve at a cathedral-like threshold, holding the apple and embodying a simultaneous innocence and guilt. She is the originator of growth and love, moving through the world with youthful energy. Though she might have stayed in a realm of harmony and animal understanding, she chooses the determined man and follows him toward mortality and death, having only barely known God before that choice.
Read Complete AnalysesSimply she stands at the cathedral’s great ascent, close to the rose window, with the apple in the apple-pose, guiltless-guilty once and for all of the growing she gave birth to since form the circle of eternities loving she went forth, top struggle through her way throughout the earth like a young year. Ah, gladly yet a little in that land Would she have lingered, heeding the harmony And understanding of the animals. But since she found the man determined, She went with him, aspiring after death, And she had as yet hardly known God.
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