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A flock of geese making a landing on level sand is enough of an image to convey both that the geese are flying south and that the season is the fall. Thus, the southern migration of geese often poetically symbolizes the decline associated with the autumn season, including the rise of the forces of yin versus the yang force. (Murck, 75).
Later in her life she published several anthologies of her poems, entitled "You Keep Waiting for Geese" (1975); [3] "The Wind is Rising" (1979); [8] and "In Any Available Light" (1983). [9] These received critical acclaim, exemplified in this review by Dr. Herman Salinger of Duke University in 1975:
He wanders from the barnyard and lives with wild ducks and geese until hunters slaughter the flocks. He finds a home with an old woman, but her cat and hen tease and taunt him mercilessly, and once again he sets off alone. The duckling sees a flock of migrating wild swans. He is delighted and excited but cannot join them because he is too young ...
Does early spring mean early migration for birds? Yes − and no. Warm weather and budding trees trigger birdwatchers to go on alert. Excitement grows with flights of snow geese, sandhill cranes ...
However, these are sometimes difficult to assign unambiguously to species. He mentions 4th to 5th-century Kalidasa's poem about Lake Manasa. This Manasa, assumes Salim Ali, is Lake Manasarovar and then states that the hamsa birds therein should be interpreted as bar-headed geese that do migrate over the Himalayas from Tibet. [12]
The date of creation of the lyrics are unknown. The inspiration for the poem is described in his memoirs The Wanderer Between Two Worlds: . I was lying as a war volunteer on the forest clearing plowed by grenades as I was a hundred nights before as a listening post and stared into the flickering light of the stormy night which was criss-crossed by the restless spotlights on German and French ...
From fall through spring, Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge near Galveston offers ample opportunity to find more than two dozen species of ducks and tens of thousands of snow geese. Migrating ...
Lawless wrote nineteen works of fiction, biography, history, nature studies and poetry, many of which were widely read at the time. She is increasingly considered a major fiction writer of the late nineteenth century, and an early modernist innovator. She is often remembered for her Wild Geese poems (1902). Her books were: