Rilke was a highly influential modernist poet whose poems were full of imagery and romanticism. He was very inspired by Greek mythology and his opinions on religion, living in France, Switzerland and Prague. His work sounds mystical, usualy leaving the last line of his poems for the reader to think about and decipher.

His poems “Archaic Torso of Apollo” and “Moving Forward” have inspired me to use poetry as a document of my final project like he did with the sculpture of Apollo’s torso, although he documented this sculpture long after the original artist had made it.

This gives a different way to interpret my project and gives insight to my state of mind and the thinking behind my final piece, however still leaving the viewer to make up their own mind about how they feel.