"When I made you, I loved you Now I pity you. I gave you all you needed: bed of earth, blanket of blue air- As I get further away from you I see vou more clearly. Your souls should have been immense by now, not what they are, small talking things- I gave you every gift, blue of the spring morning, ti"
Glück was a perfect demonstration of exhaled humanities in contemporary poems when people failed to agree with Rilke’s talented but arrogant,even merciless expression of the underlying connotation between beauty and ordeal of existence:For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror/and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us
"Hush, beloved. It doesn't matter to me
how many summers I live to return:
this one summer we have entered
eternity."
Gluck’s poems ask us to listen to nature and to be humbled before the beautiful yet mysterious world. She writes in the traditions of Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop, but you also sense the struggle between the poet and the words/world. The silenced come back to have a voice and to demand our attention.