Generosity. This is exhaled from these letters to a young poet mature aspirant, careful this student barely twenty years in the same military academy and the dilemmas similar to those he experienced a decade earlier, submits his attempts to already recognized admired elder. Rilke See you in its corresponding and offers him the benefit of the brotherly path traveled by him in the form of thoughts and advice that forms as a balance sheet of these years between them and a profession of faith. It offers scout presents the pitfalls that would stumble, measures to this alter ego that it took him discover alone. This fine prose discovers another expression of the inner life of the great poet, this huge lonely, and its particular sensitivity. Rilke explicit for itself and its corresponding existence of a choice: it evokes purity of vision of the poet in his refusal of adult conventions; watchful contemplation supported by critical thinking; his conceptions of vocation, the creative impulse, the kind attention of the world and its relationship to the patient time. The relationship of proximity between artistic and sexual pleasures. The sacrifices he must make the necessary rejection of frivolity. And God also. For it is a true entry into asceticism he describes a transcendent mission, a religious impulse to "live your life as one of the best days of a grandiose painful pregnancy". The student will Kappus career as an officer ...
