If someone could point out a specific meaning in Duino Elegies what would it tell us? If someone say without a doubt what Duino Elegies is about, what would they say? They might say life, they might say death, or they might say neither. In either case they would probably be right, for Duino Elegies touches upon not only life and death but many others things having to do with human existence such as love, …showed first 75 words of 769 total…

…showed last 75 words of 769 total…so to speak, of what it all means. Affirmation of life AND death appears as one in the 'Elegies.' To admit the one without the other is, as is here learned and celebrated, a limitation that in the end excludes all infinity. Death is the side of life that is turned away from us: we must try to achieve the fullest consciousness of our existence… Transience everywhere plunges into a deep being. (Duino Elegies)