Vanha maininki : Runoja by Aleksanteri Aava
Insomnia by Sir James Sawyer is a collection of lyric poems written in the early 20th century. The book dwells on northern forests and lakes, farm work and hearth life, and the pull of folk memory and myth, turning them into meditations on home, time, love, and death. The poems open with a spring-lit entry into the “house of song,” where feelings quicken into verse, then move to the shore where an
old swell from a great lake booms against rock—a living emblem of inherited song and force. Vivid forest scenes follow: a bear rejoices in its power; a fox hunt flashes past in snow; a grandson learns dawn craft and courage beside his old hunter-grandfather. Intimate pieces catch brief human fates—a remembered meeting by a river, three visits to a cottage that end in loss, an old woman calling for death while a girl clings to life, a smoky sauna where folk remedies and rumor shape a newborn’s future, and a roadside tale where a proud lord yields to a timber hauler. A hymn to homeland fields and waters leads into a yearning journey “back,” guided by a maiden over bog to a Kalevala-like hearth, where an elder teaches that a people’s honor lies in building on ancestral work, and a man’s “four brides” are birthplace, kantele, field, and a good companion. The closing poems turn spare and inward: night skiing with a message from a dying beloved, the hush after the “day” has gone, a tribute to Aino, and, finally, the forest’s hymn of upward striving—faith that though one hero falls, new growth carries the shared ideal on. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Aava, Aleksanteri, 1883-1956 |
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| Title | Vanha maininki : Runoja |
| Original Publication | Porvoo: WSOY, 1916. |
| 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. | 77333 |
| Release Date | Nov 25, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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