Buddha in Glory (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- First Published: 1908
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Asia or Asians, Spiritualism, Sculpting or sculptors, Buddha, Buddhism, Sculpture, Statues
The Poem
“Buddha in Glory” (or as one translator titles it, “The Buddha in the Glory”) is a short poem of twelve lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each. The original poem is predominantly in trochaic meter (with alternating stressed and unstressed final syllables in each line); it begins in trochaic pentameter and ends in trochaic tetrameter. The original German rhymes abab, cdcd, efef.
The poem’s title calls up visions of Eastern religion, mysticism, and meditation on the right path to Nirvana or salvation. Buddhism is a religion of eastern...
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