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Letter One Poem By Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a young poet ‘’Letter one’’ by Rainer Maria Rilke and Black Swan Green chapters ‘’ Hangman and Solarium’’ by David Mitchell is about someone telling the young poet and Jason that you can not create beauty in poetry because it is already there. In both stories the poet seeks advice from someone else. They need help creating a poem of their own, for example like nothing about love or anything that you try to make beautiful because beauty just is. In the story Letters to a Young Poet ‘’Letter one’’ was a very interesting story it's about a young poet sending his poems to Rilke so he can look over them and help the young poet to get better. Rilke did not want to really say a lot about his poems because he was not there or knows what's …show more content…
Then one day he got an invitation to go the vicarages house , but when he arrived at sssssthe house a old man opened the door Jason asked if he was the vicar, but then the man brought him in a room where an ‘’ old toady lady’’(Rilke.143), Jason also describe her as an old royal looking like lady, for example he said, ‘’He jewels were big as cola cubes and sherbet lemons’’ and ‘’silver hair and a royal purple shawl’’(Rilke.143). Her name is Madame Crommelynck because she is a very formal lady. She told him that she wasn't the vicar,but she still sends his poems to him, but that she reads them first and the reason why she invites him over was to talk about his poems she just told him that you can not create beauty because beauty just is. For example, ‘’ your potter has made the vase, yes, but he's not made the beauty. Only an object where beauty resides. Until the vase is dropped and breaks.Who is the the ultimate fate of every vase.’’(Mitchell.148), which means that beauty already exists it's not something you make. Madame Crommelynck also ask why don't you use your real name, then Jason said because he doesn't want his classmates to make fun of him, but Madame crommelynck says poetry is something amazing, but if he doesn't want to publish his name it's okay, but he still needs to write because it's amazing.
In conclusion, the central idea of both stories is that both the young

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