Thanks, Julie. Your pointing out the places where I used "objects" in place of "things" made me realize that it might be better to use "things" each time. Rilke called this collection his "thing poems," so it is a crucial term for him, and there is a strong emphasis on things in this poem in particular, in which the hetaerae have become things themselves. They were always playthings for the men when they were alive.
Susan
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