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100 1 _aVuokoski, Viljami,
_d1880-1944
245 1 0 _aElämän urpuja
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-04
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _aElämän urpuja by Viljami Vuokoski is a collection of lyric poems written in the early 20th century. The book reflects on love and hatred, longing and loss, faith and death, and the pull of home and nation, using vivid nature imagery to frame a young conscience wrestling its way from despair toward hope. Across brief, songlike pieces, the speaker moves from prayers and cries of weariness to flashes of consolation. Early poems set the frenzy of hatred against the quiet work of love; others mourn a lost sibling, confess the wounds of false love, and yearn for release from life’s burdens. A visionary dream nears hell and turns back toward mercy, while civic addresses urge harmony, reconciliation, and steadfast labor rather than the sword. Nature—dawn’s glow, dusk owls, forests and waters—mirrors shifting moods of temptation, grief, and renewal. The closing notes gather these themes into a call to trust, endure, and convert sorrow into song. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Työväen Kirjapaino, 1904
653 _aFinnish poetry -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78113
999 _c118833
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