Are different voices used to express thoughts and feelings in the poems of Rilke? What effect do these voices have on your responses to the poems?

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By Eddie Royle

English HL, Ms. Lacy

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Rilke's Poetry

Are different voices used to express thoughts and feelings in the poems of Rilke? What effect do these voices have on your responses to the poems?

Rilke's voice in his poems, have a powerful effect. Rainer Maria Rilke follows a lyrical style in his poetry, expressing so much emotion in every stanza. In his poems, such as childhood and Before Summer Rain, Rilke carefully blends his emotion and insight into the narrator's voice. Rilke's powerful narrative voice help express his thoughts into a collective one, that provides the reader with an emotional, insightful reaction.

Rilke in his poem, Before Summer Rain, cleverly embeds a narrative voice to express the "faded tapestries" of his past. The poem is four stanzas long, where the first two stanzas have four verses and the last two only have three verses. The poem begins, just as a story of a rainy day, and the author physically describes the surroundings, such as the cry of a "plover". However, once the storm starts at the end of stanza two, "requests the downpour",