Comparing Beauty In Black Swan Green And Letters To A...

In Black Swan Green, David Mitchell introduces beauty as beauty is while in Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke believes beauty is within. Both authors think poets should accept beauty as is, and try not to change it. Jason, a poet, asks for criticism on his poetry, the criticism he got was that in order for his poems to be beautiful, truth must be incorporated into them due to the fact that beauty exists within truth. The poet in “Letter One” was told writing poetry comes from your thoughts and feelings. Rilke and Mitchell both believe beauty is important in writing. In Black Swan Green, Mitchell introduces a central idea that beauty is, meaning beauty is everything and anything without trying. “Hangman” begins to develop the character, Jason and his stammer. “Your best poem is here...is your ‘Hangman’, it has pieces of truth of your speech impediment” (Mitchell, 156). Madame Crommelynck believes Jason is a good poet but she has some things to critic. In “Solarium”, Madame Crommelynck reads Jason’s poem and likes them but finds they are too beautiful, “Beautiful words ruin your poetry. A touch of beauty enhances the dish…” (Mitchell, 147). Beauty must be used at a minimum because the poem should already have beauty. “Beauty is here, that is all. Beauty is.” (Mitchell, …show more content…
The author tells the poet criticism cannot be told because “any attempt of criticism would be foreign to me” (Rilke, 5). “There something of your own is trying to become word and melody” (Rilke, 5), the author believes the poet has the ability to write a beautiful poem. “Dig into yourself for a deep answer” (Rilke, 6), Rilke means that writing from the heart is the answer. Beauty needs to be written from the heart, “rescue yourself from general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires” (Rilke, 6), beauty is from

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Comparing Beauty In Black Swan Green And Letters To A Young Poet