Breathing in, and breathing out
This is how it'll be, that for every day to be learning, YES learning the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, not learning German, no, but learning the works themselves as presented in the translations available for me atm. To read out loud from each multiple times, part by part, section by section, even if need be line by line, and going back and reading them all at least 3 times in whole in one go,
10 for Duino
55 for Orpheus
1 Elegy and 5 to 6 Sonnets per day
55 divided into 10 is 5.5 so in my mind what seems appropriate is to do 5 then 6 repeated to go halfway to 6 average per day for 10 days, oui oui, TEN days till I begin to really have a feel for these masterpieces.
Then to do the same thing for every other volume of lyric I have from RMRilke, .. when that is done, to then pick one translator and read all the work in chronology, for each translator one by one.
For each day, there are to be "helpings" of Letters and other material gathered, and use of the internet with focused names, places, words for search results, finding more and more to temporarily exhaust my taste for Rilke, to have such a feast, that in 2 or more months, I'd be ready for another poet to do the same thing with. Any recommendations? Well there's not many poets with these many translations so my approach to other poets would be less complex, but perhaps as or more rewarding?
We'll see, Emily Dickinson? Walt Whitman? William Wordsworth? John Keats? Samuel Coleridge? Shelley? Lord Byron? Johann Wolfgang Goethe? Franz Schiller? Friedrich Holderlin? Heinrich Heine? Lorca? Neruda? Verlaine? Valery? John Donne? Shakespeare's Sonnets? T.S. Eliot? Sylvia Plath? Anne Sexton? Allen Ginsberg? Wallace Stevens? Ezra Pound? Petrarch? Leopardi?
Or would I be best fit for those 19th century novels? Ahh yes, those, I think that would be a most fitting thing, alternate, but novels operate for me much different than poetry. Poetry is unique, like music and novels are like Life, which contains some music, but sometimes not a lot.
10 for Duino
55 for Orpheus
1 Elegy and 5 to 6 Sonnets per day
55 divided into 10 is 5.5 so in my mind what seems appropriate is to do 5 then 6 repeated to go halfway to 6 average per day for 10 days, oui oui, TEN days till I begin to really have a feel for these masterpieces.
Then to do the same thing for every other volume of lyric I have from RMRilke, .. when that is done, to then pick one translator and read all the work in chronology, for each translator one by one.
For each day, there are to be "helpings" of Letters and other material gathered, and use of the internet with focused names, places, words for search results, finding more and more to temporarily exhaust my taste for Rilke, to have such a feast, that in 2 or more months, I'd be ready for another poet to do the same thing with. Any recommendations? Well there's not many poets with these many translations so my approach to other poets would be less complex, but perhaps as or more rewarding?
We'll see, Emily Dickinson? Walt Whitman? William Wordsworth? John Keats? Samuel Coleridge? Shelley? Lord Byron? Johann Wolfgang Goethe? Franz Schiller? Friedrich Holderlin? Heinrich Heine? Lorca? Neruda? Verlaine? Valery? John Donne? Shakespeare's Sonnets? T.S. Eliot? Sylvia Plath? Anne Sexton? Allen Ginsberg? Wallace Stevens? Ezra Pound? Petrarch? Leopardi?
Or would I be best fit for those 19th century novels? Ahh yes, those, I think that would be a most fitting thing, alternate, but novels operate for me much different than poetry. Poetry is unique, like music and novels are like Life, which contains some music, but sometimes not a lot.
46-50, M
