Loneliness
Loneliness - meaning Summary
Loneliness as Weathered Return
Rilke likens loneliness to rain that rises from distant plains toward its ancient home in the sky, only to fall back down upon the city. The poem presents solitude as a recurring, almost natural force that arrives in intimate, hollow moments—dawn, restless nights, couples who fail to connect—pouring into lives when human contact proves insufficient. Loneliness is cast as both inevitable and quietly invasive.
Read Complete AnalysesBeing apart and lonely is like rain. It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains; from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs to heaven, which is its old abode. And only when leaving heaven drops upon the city. It rains down on us in those twittering hours when the streets turn their faces to the dawn, and when two bodies who have found nothing, dissapointed and depressed, roll over; and when two people who despise eachother have to sleep together in one bed- that is when loneliness receives the rivers...
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