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The Wind Has Risen (風立ちぬ, Kaze tachinu) is a Japanese novel by Tatsuo Hori, published between 1936 and 1938, [1] and is regarded as his most acknowledged work. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The story is set in a sanitarium in Nagano , Japan, where the nameless protagonist resides with his fiancée Setsuko, who has been diagnosed with tuberculosis .
The exact chronological and interpretive orders of the six 1819 poems are unknown, but "Ode to Psyche" was probably written first and "To Autumn" last. [6] Keats simply dated the others May 1819. However, he worked on the spring poems together, and they form a sequence within their structures. [7]
"The Wind" shows great inventiveness in its choice of metaphors and similes, while employing extreme metrical complexity. [9] It is one of the classic examples [10] [11] of the use of what has been called "a guessing game technique" [12] or "riddling", [13] a technique known in Welsh as dyfalu, comprising the stringing together of imaginative and hyperbolic similes and metaphors.
"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart." – Rainer Maria Rilke "In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move."
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.It details the story of Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad, after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble.
The poem begins with three sections describing the wind's effects upon earth, air, and ocean. In the last two sections, the poet speaks directly to the wind, asking for its power, to lift him up and make him its companion in its wanderings. The poem ends with an optimistic note which is that if winter days are here then spring is not very far.
Whether you’re all about that spring state of mind—rebirth, new beginnings, growth, etc.—or you’re simply excited to say goodbye to winter, there’s a spring quote for you (or your ...
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