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__**Rainer Maria Rilke's Higher Purpose**__

Rainer Maria Rilke's higher purpose for this poem is explaining to us that we are reminded by moments in our childhood by the smallest things, but we forget what their importance was. She explain's the feeling of childhood, the long afternoon filled with boredom, "lonely as a sheperd"; the ways we had to make up our own fun. The tone of this poem is very sad but it makes you think about the things in your childhood that you forget. I can relate to the feeling of seeing something, like an image or a place and be reminded of something from my childhood. Rainer does a good job, capturing the feeling of childhood, losing a moment in time, and how it can "to go on bewilder us."

Excellent - Rilke does tell us that we have to let ourselves be reminded, be loose enough to take the time to remember. You capture her meaning very well.