The Lovers
The Lovers - fact Summary
Included in New Poems
The poem appears in Rainer Maria Rilke's collection New Poems. It portrays two lovers whose identities dissolve into a shared, spiritual becoming: they mature into one another, exchange nourishment and sight, and sink together to withstand each other. The language emphasizes mutual transformation and endurance rather than erotic possession, suggesting a metaphysical, reciprocal union that sustains both participants.
Read Complete AnalysesSee how in their veins all becomes spirit; into each other they mature and grow. Like axles, their forms tremblingly orbit, round which it whirls, bewitching and aglow. Thirsters, and they receive drink, watchers, and see: they receive sight. Let them into one another sink so as to endure each other outright.
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