The Elegies lament our modern human consciousness, before finally shifting key and reaching out towards affirmation of life. The intensity of his inspiration lapsed after this, and Rilke was unable to complete the Elegies until 1922 when he was staying at the Château de Muzot in Switzerland. The voice’s words became the first line of the First Duino Elegy: ‘Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the orders of Angels?’ Immediately, Rilke wrote the first two elegies and some fragments that would form the next eight to produce a cycle of ten poems.
In 1912, during the period when Rilke was struggling to write, he had a moment of inspiration during a visit to Castle Duino, near Trieste, when he heard a voice calling to him.
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