Rilke's Apollo

" It is one thing to be asked to carry a cabbage across the street, quite another to be asked to carry the recently unearthed head of Rilke's Apollo"(Cunningham, 77).

Rainer Maria Rilke was a famous poet who lived from 1875 to 1926. Torso of an Archaic Apollo was one of his most famous works. Although the poem itself is written about a dead object, he makes writes as if it were alive. This young child is fighting for the love of his mother, and feels as though this one cup of flower will define their relationship.

Links:

http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Rainer_Maria_Rilke

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/gr/Rilke.html