This paper proposes a philosophical-literary interpretation of the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, carried out, fundamentally, from: Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923). It is suggested that the Rilkean work contains a proposal for a solution to the existential problem of man in the world, in the context of the crisis of modernity. The poet describes a way to achieve a new human root, whose fundamental axis is the acceptance of death, which is materialized in the acquisition of awareness of one’s own body and its finitude, based on sensitive experiences.
Giménez Salinas, M. O. (2021). Rainer Maria Rilke, poet of the invisible. The transcendence of death in the last works of the poet: Duino elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. Revista De Filosofía, 78, pp. 61–77. Retrieved from https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/65666
