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For reviews of poetry and drama, either particular stagings or the text itself if that's all you have. Basically for anything /lit/ that stresses the aural quality of the language. However ballet and paintings or sculpture or architecture are welcome if you want, but if you post them, try to actually post your thoughts on them instead of just showcase your taste in paintings.
I'll try to add more regular reviews to this thread, here is the first one
The opening poem from Reiner Maria Rilke's "Die Sonette an Orpheus"
Here it is in musical form, by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara:
https://youtu.be/HdUY4BBQRTY
I could spill posts and posts of ink talking about this poem, as brief as it is, but I will stick to my central contention: the poem is a depiction of the Nativity, or a different version of the Nativity. Rilke was not a Christian at all but was deeply inspired by Christian mysticism, especially after his encounter with Orthodoxy which led him to write Das Stunden-Buch. I see him here as trying to synthesize Christian spiritualism with his belief that nature is divine.
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>>25065283
Here's a choral version of the composition if you prefer. It adds a nice emphasis to the words
https://youtu.be/N4LqjE7ff9M
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>>25065315
>trust me bro, I really could do it but you all are stupid
Reducing a poem to several key terms to make it about what you believe is not a review or criticism either. Entire thread premise is retarded, lit review but only for a certain sort of literature but ballet, painting, sculpture and architecture are welcome?
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This is an album I've listening to a lot lately. It's all French Lieder, and as both the pianist and soprano say, they're in love with the text.
What's really of note for me in this is that while I love French poetry, I do not normally like French singing, or let's just say I did find it an language for singing, even if great music has been written for singing in French. But this album forces me to reconsider that since the soprano makes even the French r sing as though a bird chirping.
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>>25065344
Maybe my use of "believe" directly connects to your use of "believe" in the post I was responded to and not the retards living in your head? I much prefer Rilke's novel even if it is not all that great out of the context of the times it was written, but I am a prose fag and it is pretty amazing within that context. I am a big fan of Gass' Reading Rilke, but that is more about language and translation and Gass gushing over Rilke's poetry than Rilke and it explores Rilke's poetry in more depth than you generally see from a single person.