V--2nd, Chap 14, V. in Love

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

The circus stuff was always important to Rilke. The passage from the 
fifth Duino Elegy relevant here goes like this:

"Plätze, oh Platz in Paris, unendlicher Schauplatz,
wo die Modistin, MADAME LAMORT,
die ruhlosesten Wege der Erde, endlose Bänder,
schlingt und widmet und neue aus ihnen
Schleifen erfindet, Rüschen, Blumen, Kokarden,
künstliche Früchte -, alle
unwahr gefärbt, - für die billigen
Winterhüte des Schicksals.
.................................................."

Note that the woman's name is LADY DEATH and that the passage ends with 
"for the cheap winter-hats of fate" ... yes, this goes well along with V 
in Love ...

Kai


On 16.01.2011 14:54, Mark Kohut wrote:
> J. Kerry Grant---just noticed the Kute Korrespondence of his name--quotes a
> scholar who sez of
> the page-created Melanie that she is 'the often apocalyptic image of the dancer
> in Yeats [as in "not knowing the
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> dancer from the dance? poem]; a merger of th edancer-doll of the Fourth Duino
> Elegy with the girl
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> acrobat who is raised aloft in the Fifth [Duino Elegy].......
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> calling all Rilke fans, talk to us....
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