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My Antonia: A Review
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My Antonia has been called nostalgic and elegiac because it
celebrates the past. The inscription on the title page of My Antonia is a
quotation from Virgil: "Optima dies... prima fugit." This sentence, meaning
"the best days are first to flee", helps incorporate all the elements of
the novel I wou ....
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....name of Antonia brings back to him. Antonia represents to
him the most fundamental, traditional way to lead one's life, including the
virtues of hard work, charity, love, optimism, pride, and sympathy with
nature.
The prairie makes one think of the forces of nature--immense,
cyclical, and unpredictable. When Jim Burden arrives on his grandparents'
farms, he is awed by the sight of "nothing but land." His parents are both
recently dead, and he's starting life over again. The huge, impersonal.... |
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