Syksyä : Runoja by Hilja Aaltonen
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Syksyä by Hilja Aaltonen is a collection of lyric poems written in the early 20th century. The book dwells on autumn and its echoes in rural life, intertwining longing, faith, love, and loss as a solitary voice weighs the pull of home against the call of the wider world. Across four parts, the speaker first lingers in harvested fields, bogs, and barns, hearing cranes overhead and watching migrants depart while she dreams
of city lights and a larger life. The mood shifts to wandering and hardship: nights at strangers’ doors, a prisoner’s brief dream of freedom, remorseful prayers, fragile hopes, and a sudden, sanctified joy in impending motherhood, before a tentative spring brightens the gloom. Love then arrives as a consuming gaze—ecstasy, betrayal, forgiveness—and culminates in a shepherd girl’s songs that cradle absent heroes and say secret farewells. The closing poems turn to memory and conscience: a lilac keeps confidences, a mother’s moral legacy lies shattered, rivers swell with storm-blood, and Sorrow and Night are addressed as stern companions. Even amid orphanhood, disappointment, and withered blossoms, the voice chooses endurance: to rise or be broken, but above all to keep singing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Aaltonen, Hilja, 1885-1965 |
|---|---|
| Title | Syksyä : Runoja |
| Original Publication | Helsinki: Yrjö Weilin & Kumpp. Oy, 1912. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Finnish poetry -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77160 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-77160-1 |
| Release Date | Oct 31, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 310 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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