Essay Archive - My Antonia: A Review
My Antonia: A Review
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 would like to discuss. It not only makes clear that Willa
Cather will deal with memories of a glorious past, but also allows suitable
basis to show how nature can change and affect a relationship. It also
hints at the Hellenic, to a large extent pastoral tone the novel will be
set in. A pastoral work retreats to a....
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