Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Prologue and Letters on Love

• John J. L. Mood opens his book with a prologue describing the profound effect Ranier Maria Rilke's writing had on him, and his resulting desire to spread the appreciation of Rilke's work to the world.

• In his introduction, Mood describes the influences of Rilke's friendships with feminists Ellen Kay and Lou Andreas-Salome, and describes Rilke's sensual and soulful writing about sex to be a poetic and spiritual act.
• Mood's gathered essays are Rilke's written contemplation of the question - of how one may learn in Eros the lessons it has to teach about true and perfect love.

• The first of Rilke's letters posits the importance of living comfortably in the quest for answers to the questions about love.

• He implores the reader always to be a beginner, always learning and asking, and loving the searching journey for its own sake.

• Second, Mood includes...

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