Comparing Solarium And Letters To A Young Poet

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“If you have a magnolia in a moonlight courtyard, do you paint its flowers?... No. You do not.” The texts “Solarium” from Black Swan Green by David Mitchell and “Letter One” from Letters to a Young Poet by author Rainer Maria Rilke both share very similar central ideas. They are about two young authors, Jason Taylor (aka Eliot Boulevard from Black Swan Green) and the unnamed Young Poet (Letters to a Young Poet), who are looking to an older person for advice. The central idea shared by David Mitchell and Rainer Maria Rilke is beauty cannot be created, it just exists and it exists in everything.
The chapter “Solarium” involves lots of discussion between the two main characters of this chapter concerning beauty and what it really is. “The amateur
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In “Letters to a Young Poet” it says that you can find inspiration for poetry with in anything, whether it be nature, one’s self, or even man made things. However in chapters from Black Swan Green Called “Solarium”, Beauty in poetry is and can only be found with in nature or one’s self, not man made things or false emotion. However through these differences comes many similarity’s from the two writings. Such as the central idea of “beauty with in” in and “beauty in nature”. Poetic beauty can be conveyed…

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