Death was a startlingly common, and disarmingly gentle idea in Rilke's work. In the poem labeled "Christmas, 1922" and in "The Poems Praise," Rilke posits that a man who understands his place before death will give himself to celebration and throw oneself toward death with abandon. Life and death were so entwined in Rilke's mind that he was sure men's perspectives would be corrected by inviting its presence into daily experience. He even spoke candidly about understanding those who would murder, as acting out of their own grieving, perhaps over their own inevitable ends.
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