Wind
'Wind' Summary
Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Wind" is a short, evocative poem that explores the power and mystery of the wind. Through vivid imagery and personification, Stevenson captures the wind's ability to shape and change the world around it. He uses the wind as a metaphor for the forces of nature, as well as the unseen forces that influence our lives. The poem is written in a lyrical and rhythmic style, making it both enjoyable to read aloud and deeply moving.Book Details
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scotland
Stevenson's critical essays on literature contain "few sustained analyses of style of content". In "A Penny Plain and Two-pence Coloured" (1884) he suggests that his own approach owed much to the exag...
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