|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER AS A YOUNG MAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feel Last Line: In my more slowly disappearing hand Subject(s): Fathers | |||
In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feel something far off. Around the lips, a great freshness--seductive, though there is no smile. Under the rows of ornamental braid on the slim Imperial officer's uniform: the saber's basket-hilt. Both hands stay folded upon it, going nowhere, calm and now almost invisible, as if they were the first to grasp the distance and dissolve. And all the rest so curtained within itself, so cloudy, that I cannot understand this figure as it fades into the background--. Oh quickly disappearing photograph in my more slowly disappearing hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLAYING DEAD by ANDREW HUDGINS PRAYER BEFORE BED by ANDREW HUDGINS THE FUNERAL SERMON by ANDREW HUDGINS ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, WHO IS NOT DEAD by ANDREW HUDGINS EUROPE AND AMERICA by DAVID IGNATOW |
| |