Authors and poets give similar central ideas in their stories. They always have part or their whole stories or poems about the central idea. An example is poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who wrote Letters To a Young Poet, and author David Mitchell, who wrote Black Swan Green. In both the poem and story, they show a similar central idea. Beauty. Rilke shows beauty in “Letter One” of Letters To a Young Poet, and Mitchell shows beauty in the chapters “Hangman” and “Solarium” in Black Swan Green. They show the central idea of beauty in many ways.
Rainer Maria Rilke is a poet. His whole name is René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke. He wrote fourteen poems and nine stories during his lifetime. Letters To a Young Poet was published in 1993, which was 67 years after he died of leukemia in 1926. Near his time of death, his work was intensely admired by many leading European poets. His reputation is still steadily growing and he is regarded as the master of verse.
David Mitchell is an award-winning author. His full name is David Stephen Mitchell and he has written two librettos, ten articles, sixteen short stories, and seven novels, including Black Swan Green, which was published in 2006. Both Black Swan Green and Letters To a Young Poet both share the central idea of beauty. …show more content…
In Letters To a Young Poet, he shows beauty in “Letter One”. In it, he has sent a letter to a young poet who sent in his/her own verses to get feedback on them. In the first paragraph, he says he wants thank the young poet for the “confidence that was placed in him. That is all he could do.” He says he “cannot discuss the verses; for any attempt of criticism would be foreign of him.”, because he doesn’t usually do that, because they almost always come out in a different way than what was actually meant. It’s also hard to criticize something that people have put their heart and soul into. Personal stuff like that can’t be