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Analysis and comments on Self-Portrait by Rainer Maria Rilke

Comment 1 of 1, added on June 29th, 2009 at 8:51 AM.

I am looking for a translation of "self portrait" which ends with the, to my mind, more convincing lines -- "out of this distant and disordered thing something in earnest labours to unroll." help!

John Anderson from United Kingdom



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Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
Poem: Self-Portrait
Added: Feb 20 2003
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