商品簡介
A language becomes a homeland in song. Across Finland's fields, forests, lakeshores and village roads, these lyrical poems give voice to a people confronting oppression while affirming freedom, shared responsibility and hope. The national flag and cultural heritage stand beside the realities of foreign military service and resistance, creating poetry in which public ideals remain closely connected to ordinary lives. Rural labour and private feeling shape the collection's human scale. Crofters, farm workers, soldiers, emigrants, sailors, young women and wandering youths appear in portraits and narrative ballads concerned with courtship, separation, poverty, education and coming of age. Farms, cottages, workshops and railway crossings become places where work and family life meet uncertainty, while grief and death are balanced by endurance and renewal. Nature is never merely a backdrop: seasons, water, flowers, birds and changing weather reflect sorrow, love and the persistence of hope. Song-like stanzas, refrains, rhyme and alliteration lend many poems an oral, communal energy, while dialogue brings immediacy to encounters and conflicts. Longer ballads sit beside very short lyrics, allowing the collection to move between narrative, declaration and concentrated emotion. Its Finnish language poetry binds national identity to daily experience, showing how questions of freedom and belonging can be carried through a song, a remembered landscape or a working life. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
