Throughout Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letter One in Letters to a young poet Rilke uses specific metaphors and word choices when addressing Franz Kappus, a student attending a military school in Vienna who loves to write poetry. Kappus originally addressed Rilke asked asked for him to criticise him. When he uses these Specific words he generates a central idea and shows the tone he is addressing him in. With these words used in context and seen with a broader view you can see the central ideas form. Together all of this can impact the story in a positive manner.
Within the story there is two central ideas. One of which is that writing comes from deep within, and the other being that criticism is almost useless in art. Focusing on criticism, he states
