A Walk
A Walk - meaning Summary
Anticipation Shapes the Self
Rilke's poem follows a walker whose eyes already reach a distant, sunlit hill before the journey unfolds. That envisioned goal exerts an almost spiritual pull, transforming the traveler and prompting reciprocal gestures, even without arrival. The poem contrasts this inward charge and mutual movement with immediate sensory fact: the tangible wind on the face. It suggests how future aims shape present identity while reality remains modest and physical.
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