Letters to a Young Poet Reflection
Auston Henderson
Acting 1
Letters to a Young Poet Essay
At the beginning of the book, I found the book extremely hard to read. The language Rilke was speaking in was different and hard to understand. Some points I got but some I didn’t and it became very wishy washy. I found myself having to read the same poem over and over until I got a clue of what he was talking about and what his purpose of the letters were. Then he said something that really made me think and look inside of myself and come to my senses. He told the poet to quit looking outside of himself and to stop asking for approval and for acceptance of his art form and to not be afraid to make mistakes. He told him to simply look inside of himself and ask himself if writing is really what he wants to do. To find in himself the command to write and to find that impulse in his heart that commands him to write and to find within himself the need to write as much as he needs oxygen to live. This really hit me because ever since I was a little five year boy, I realized I wanted to be a performer and I have never wanted to do anything else to this day. I have this need to do my art form, I sing when I talk, I dance when I walk, It’s in my blood. And that is when I really connected with the book and really understood what his purpose was to write to this young poet. This book slowly started to change the way I thought letter by letter. It is the only book that made me think and to look inside of myself and question my ways of thinking. I know that this book will have an effect on my art form, because it completely changed my outlook of things. One important point that really stuck out to me is to make mistakes, because that’s how we learn, but also to be proud of making mistakes and that it is simply a part of life and that it is necessary to be an artist. I have problems taking risk when it comes to my art form. I’m always trying to do it right and to impress others when I don’t
Acting 1
Letters to a Young Poet Essay
At the beginning of the book, I found the book extremely hard to read. The language Rilke was speaking in was different and hard to understand. Some points I got but some I didn’t and it became very wishy washy. I found myself having to read the same poem over and over until I got a clue of what he was talking about and what his purpose of the letters were. Then he said something that really made me think and look inside of myself and come to my senses. He told the poet to quit looking outside of himself and to stop asking for approval and for acceptance of his art form and to not be afraid to make mistakes. He told him to simply look inside of himself and ask himself if writing is really what he wants to do. To find in himself the command to write and to find that impulse in his heart that commands him to write and to find within himself the need to write as much as he needs oxygen to live. This really hit me because ever since I was a little five year boy, I realized I wanted to be a performer and I have never wanted to do anything else to this day. I have this need to do my art form, I sing when I talk, I dance when I walk, It’s in my blood. And that is when I really connected with the book and really understood what his purpose was to write to this young poet. This book slowly started to change the way I thought letter by letter. It is the only book that made me think and to look inside of myself and question my ways of thinking. I know that this book will have an effect on my art form, because it completely changed my outlook of things. One important point that really stuck out to me is to make mistakes, because that’s how we learn, but also to be proud of making mistakes and that it is simply a part of life and that it is necessary to be an artist. I have problems taking risk when it comes to my art form. I’m always trying to do it right and to impress others when I don’t