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

Beauty is quite a lovely concept, but what is it? In Black Swan Green by David Mitchell and Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, the central ideas of the excerpts is beauty and what it truly is. In the two conversations the Jason had with Madame Crommelynck in Black Swan Green, Madame Crommelynck shows that beauty just exists, that it can’t truly be created. Madame Crommelynck say that beauty is in everyday things, “sunrise in dirty Toronto, one’s new lover in an old cafe, sinister magpies on a roof.” (pg. 148) In “Letter One” of Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke tells the young poet that criticism would not affect the poem’s beauty, and that the poet should write about everyday things, instead of what others may want. Black Swan Green and Letters to a Young Poet have the similar central idea of beauty because both stories show that beauty is simply there, how it is in everyday things, and how it can’t be forced or created. …show more content…
That’s a given. She can easily tell that Jason believes that if his poems don’t contain heaps of beauty, then they aren’t exceptional poems. She however, knows this notion is false. You should add a bit of beauty to a poem, but not too much, or the poem will be spoiled, much like salt when added to a certain food dish where salt is appropriate. When Madame Crommelynck brings up the examples of natural beauty, and Jason brings up the artificial beauty of the vase, Madame Crommelynck scoffs and shows that, while the vase may look nice, is bound to all vases’ fates: shattering to pieces, losing its beauty. This shows that artificial beauty is bound to disappear, but natural beauty will live on

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