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100 1 _aSödergran, Edith,
_d1892-1923
245 1 0 _aDikter
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-14
508 _aTuula Temonen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _aDikter by Edith Södergran is a collection of lyric poetry written in the early 20th century. The book centers on a modern, visionary voice meditating on identity, womanhood, nature, love, spirituality, and death. Across vivid, concentrated poems, a first‑person speaker moves through seas, forests, stars, and autumnal light, feeling both exile and fierce self-assertion. She proclaims a new female self, questions God, weighs happiness against pain, and treats death as life’s intimate sister. Scenes and symbols recur: a light in a window for the dead, stars shattering into garden “shards,” a caged bird longing for mountain silence, an autumn’s last flower, and divergent paths toward purity or ruin. Love appears intoxicating yet perilous; beauty is excess and austerity at once; foreign lands beckon, and the soul waits by still waters. The collection ultimately frames life as a tight, unyielding circle, where happiness proves hollow and pain becomes the stern giver of truth and transformation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBorgå: Holger Schildts Förlag, 1916
653 _aSwedish poetry -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77933
999 _c118653
_d118653