02125cam a22003013u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000350011324500220014826400510017030000470022133600260026833700260029433800360032050000310035650800370038752012200042453400820164465300350172685600430176199900190180477980UtSlPG20260610134816.0mcr n260607r20261920utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7asv2iso639-1 4aPT1 aSödergran, Edith,d1892-192310aFramtidens skugga 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-20  aTuula Temonen and Tapio Riikonen  aFramtidens skugga by Edith Södergran is a modernist poetry collection written in the early 20th century. The book contemplates a visionary future through bold cosmic imagery and ecstatic meditations on Eros, power, fate, and death.

Across its sections, a prophetic lyric voice summons humanity toward a new age as stars, planets, and lightning become emblems of will and transformation. The poems move between defiant declarations of sovereignty and intimate confessions of fragility and solitude, casting Eros as a creative, world-renewing force and the Sun as an overwhelming source of bliss and annihilation. Scenes of initiation and revival—such as a ritual “resurrection”—alternate with reflections on materialism, the body’s charged power, and the struggle to name truth amid ruin. Nature and myth intertwine: an elf-queen’s garden, a roaring waterfall, the hyacinth of spring, and the eagle’s flight become figures for rebirth and audacity. The sequence tends toward a communal hope—the dream of a walled garden where “siblings” remake life—yet ends under the sign of the guiding star, where destiny demands courage equal to its promise. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cHelsingfors: Holger Schildts Förlagsaktiebolag, 1920  aSwedish poetry -- 20th century40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77980  c118700d118700