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The panther by Rainer Maria Rilke

1. The Panther -Rainer Maria Rilke

2. Overview of ‘The panther ’ Introduction About the Author Poem Content Summary Critical Analysis Conclusion

3. The Panther - Rainer Maria Rilke " The Panther " is a poem by  Rainer Maria Rilke  written between 1902 and 1903.It describes a captured panther behind bars, as it was exhibited in Paris. It is one of Rilke's most famous poems and has been translated into English many times . It is written in rhyming quatrains (A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.)

4. About the Author Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets“ H is best-known works include the poetry collections  Duino Elegies and  Sonnets to Orpheus . 

5. Summary of The Panther His vision has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. To him there seem to be a thousand bars. Out these bars there is no world for him. He paces in circles, over and over.

6. The movement is like a ritual dance. At certain times the panther regains his vision as "the curtain of the pupils lifts.“ An image enters in, rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone. Summary

7. Critical Analysis A panther is the  melanistic  color variant of the  leopard  and the  jaguar . panthers of both species have excess black  pigments . Due to its beautiful color and texture it is trapped and put them in the cage. Rilke uses symbolism and alliteration in the poem. Because it is in the cage it cannot do anything, go anywhere so he paces back and forth, refusing to be tamed. He shows how small and contained he is through alliteration when he says "Cramped Circles”.

8. The panthers longing to break through the bars and return to its natural environment. The panther is also described as being "silent" and "mute." Critical Analysis

9. The Berlin Wall was built in August 12,1961, forbidding East Berliners to pass into West Berlin. All trespassers were to be shot down. I t came down in 1989.

10. In "The Panther", by Rainer Maria Wilke, Rainer is showing the panther feeling isolated. This connects to the photograph because both pieces show different kinds of imprisonment. The piece of art shows the wall (much like a cage) dividing the Berliners. They lost much freedom and East Berliners were trapped inside their own borders by society, just like the panther. Many never saw their family in West Berlin again. "It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world. The Berlins wall made the people of Berlin feel the way the panther did, hopeless. Rilke wrote about what he views of the natural world. It is chaotic/unordered. Connection

11. Conclusion The poem depicts the agony( extreme physical or mental suffering ) of the panther that has been imprisoned.  This poem can be a satire to humans who are responsible for making the animals and wildlife homeless. The will of living will be gone if you were captured for long.

12. conclusion The poem shows e ven the strong animals can be weak if they were captive for long time. So the tone of the poem evokes to let the animal survive in their natural habitat.

13. What will you do if you don't have freedom?