Project Gutenberg 2025-05-19 Public domain in the USA. 106 Arti, V. (Väinö) 1885 1963 Arti, V. (Vaino) Arti, Väinö Valve, Kaarlo Väinö Kotkanlento : $b Viisilauluinen runoelma $aHelsinki :$bKustannusosakeyhtiö Kansanvalta, $c1927. Tuula Temonen "Kotkanlento : Viisilauluinen runoelma by V. Arti" is a lyrical narrative poem cycle written in the early 20th century. Composed as five “songs,” it traces a metaphysical flight of an eagle from a mountain toward the stars, meeting clouds, winds, northern lights, and thunder, and reflects on freedom, striving, moral law, and the limits of knowledge. The poem begins with the eagle rising in autumn light, tempted by the stars’ promise and debating fear, fate, and mortality. In the cloud-realm, moonlit spirits invite it to dissolve into their easy brightness, but it continues upward. Higher still, the four winds sing rival doctrines—harsh vigilance, shared life and love, command and dominion, reason and law—while the eagle longs for a peace beyond strife. The northern lights become a tourney of swords teaching that steadiness, swiftness, straightness, and aiming above the fray win the day; the eagle slips through unharmed. In the final trial, thunder-giant faces encircle it, lightning speaking riddling counsels the eagle must grasp; after learning that one who is blinded must be led by heaven, it refuses a blind ascent, folds its wings, and plunges back toward the mountain, as the distant stars keep their secret. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250516005832arti 1927 FI Reading ease score: 61.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fi Finnish poetry -- 20th century PH Text Category: Poetry 73779 2025-09-30T06:29:16.273462 text/html 93417 2025-09-30T06:29:21.541943 application/epub+zip 92219 2025-09-30T06:29:18.923428 application/epub+zip 75817 2025-09-30T06:29:17.831431 application/epub+zip 174000 2025-09-30T06:29:23.259912 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 160421 2025-09-30T06:29:20.893921 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 48170 2025-09-30T06:29:15.932479 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 28455 2025-05-19T14:48:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14600 2025-09-30T06:29:23.391923 application/rdf+xml 11424 2025-09-30T06:29:18.324435 image/jpeg 2988 2025-09-30T06:29:18.077413 image/jpeg 92479 2025-09-30T06:29:16.279443 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fi.wikipedia