duino elegies by rainer maria rilke

Sheryl Massaro's duino elegies offers an interpretation, rather than a new traditional translation, of Rainer Maria Rilke's seminal collection of ten elegies. In an effort toward making the poems more understandable to modern audiences, some of Rilke's allusions are clarified and a few take a backseat to flow and meaning. Overall, Massaro's objective is to remove impediments to Rilke's concept of life as a continuum.