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100 1 _aKajanto, Antero,
_d1895-1968
245 1 0 _aValkeat tunnit
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-21
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _aValkeat tunnit by Antero Kajanto is a collection of poems written in the early 20th century. The book paints luminous scenes of Finnish nature and everyday life across the seasons, using spring’s radiance as a gateway to themes of love, festivity, memory, loss, and the human condition. The poems begin with the ecstasy of early spring and high summer—budding leaves, lake shores, students’ May Day gaiety, and Midsummer’s blaze—before turning toward autumn’s thinning light and winter’s hush, where dead water lilies, frost, and New Year’s night frame time’s passing. In the final part the voice grows inward and philosophical: Pegasus figures poetic inspiration; self-portraits grapple with smallness, doubt, and longing; the heart appears both captive and sovereign; fate and toil define the human lot; Christmas bells awaken childhood faith; a prayer-like elegy addresses the Highest; and the closing piece hails the poem itself as a night-born force moving through the world. Throughout, sensuous images and musical cadences guide a cycle from awakening to ripeness, decline, and reflective acceptance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cJyväskylä: K. J. Gummerus O.Y., 1923
653 _aFinnish poetry -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77520
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