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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Rilke say about careers in the sixth letter?
2. Why has it taken so long for Rilke to reply to the young poet with his seventh letter?
3. What does Rilke imply about losing God?
4. In letter five, what statue does Rilke mention is near his place of residence?
5. What holiday is Rilke marking with his sixth letter?
Short Essay Questions
1. What can be inferred about the young poet's feelings toward his own solitude from Rilke's seventh letter?
2. What is Rilke's view of God?
3. Rilke indicates that humans have distanced themselves from the spiritual realm, from God, and from each other. How has this distancing occurred?
4. Why does Rilke send a copy of the young poet's sonnet with letter seven?
5. Rilke implies that security and comfort are negative. Why?
6. What does Rilke mean when he says that the names of things are often misrepresented of what things are?
7. What is Rilke's definition of love?
8. What does Rilke say that the average person will continue to do in regards to love?
9. Explain what Rilke means when in letter eight he says that sadness "are the moments when something new has entered into us".
10. What does Rilke mean when, in letter seven, he says that in the future, femininity will not be "merely an opposite of the masculine, but. something in itself"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain Rilke's focus on solitude and why he thinks it is important for artistic and personal development. What does solitude mean to Rilke? Why is solitude Rilke's primary message to the young poet?
Essay Topic 2
How is Rilke's advice to the young poet applicable for 21st century writers? How is his advice not applicable for 21st century writers?
Essay Topic 3
In letter eight, Rilke compares the sense of security to which individuals cling to the horrors that exist in the homes of the characters of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. Analyze one of Poe's stories or longer poems using the life philosophies of Rilke as a lens through which to view the horrors of Poe's work as personal delusions and securities.
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