Dikter by Edith Södergran
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Dikter 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.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Södergran, Edith, 1892-1923 |
|---|---|
| Title | Dikter |
| Original Publication | Borgå: Holger Schildts Förlag, 1916. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen and Tapio Riikonen |
| Language | Swedish |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Swedish poetry -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77933 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-77933-1 |
| Release Date | Feb 14, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 284 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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