Letter One Poem By Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a young poet ‘’Letter one’’ by Rainer Maria Rilke and Black Swan Green chapters ‘’ Hangman and Solarium’’ by David Mitchell is about someone telling the young poet and Jason that you can not create beauty in poetry because it is already there. In both stories the poet seeks advice from someone else. They need help creating a poem of their own, for example like nothing about love or anything that you try to make beautiful because beauty just is. In the story Letters to a Young Poet ‘’Letter one’’ was a very interesting story it's about a young poet sending his poems to Rilke so he can look over them and help the young poet to get better. Rilke did not want to really say a lot about his poems because he was not there or knows what's
he's thinking when he wrote the poem so he didn't really criticise his work instead he just tells him ‘’ find out the reason that commands you to write, see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart, confess to yourself whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart, confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write’’(Rilke. 6), what that statement means that he needs to write about what's in his heart also that he needs to want to write that he can not live without it that you wake up wanting to write and go to sleep wanting to write. Then Rilke sent the poems back saying thank you for trusting in me. In the novel Black Swan Green chapters ‘’Hangman and Solarium’’ is about a boy named Jason telling the reader about how he got his stammer and he got it on a normal day in school, his class were playing hangman and he knew the word so he raised his hand to say the word but he could not say it he was so mad at himself because he couldn’t say a simple word like nightingale. Then everyone was waiting, but he couldn’t say it so he just pretended he didn't know because he did not his classmates to know about his stammering. The teacher called his mom and he was sent to a speech therapist. Then in chapter ‘’Solarium ‘’ he was sending his poems to the vicarage so he can review his poetry.
Then one day he got an invitation to go the vicarages house , but when he arrived at sssssthe house a old man opened the door Jason asked if he was the vicar, but then the man brought him in a room where an ‘’ old toady lady’’(Rilke.143), Jason also describe her as an old royal looking like lady, for example he said, ‘’He jewels were big as cola cubes and sherbet lemons’’ and ‘’silver hair and a royal purple shawl’’(Rilke.143). Her name is Madame Crommelynck because she is a very formal lady. She told him that she wasn't the vicar,but she still sends his poems to him, but that she reads them first and the reason why she invites him over was to talk about his poems she just told him that you can not create beauty because beauty just is. For example, ‘’ your potter has made the vase, yes, but he's not made the beauty. Only an object where beauty resides. Until the vase is dropped and breaks.Who is the the ultimate fate of every vase.’’(Mitchell.148), which means that beauty already exists it's not something you make. Madame Crommelynck also ask why don't you use your real name, then Jason said because he doesn't want his classmates to make fun of him, but Madame crommelynck says poetry is something amazing, but if he doesn't want to publish his name it's okay, but he still needs to write because it's amazing.
In conclusion, the central idea of both stories is that both the young
poet in Letter to a Young Poet ‘’ letter one’’ and Jason in Black Swan Green ‘’Hangman and Solarium’’ asking for help to improve on their poems and both Rilke and Madame Crommelynck both said that they should create beauty because beauty is already there and you shouldn't try to create it and just write what's on your mind.