 | Willa Cather - 1913 - 324 pages
...lonely, Carl." They went into the house together, leaving the Divide behind them, under the evening star. Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts...in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth! THE END •- •' » ' O pioneers! AGG5610 Stanford University Libraries 3 6105 045 000 614 & . c CECIL... | |
 | Willa Cather - 1913 - 330 pages
...leaving the Divide behind them, under the evening star. Fortunate country, that is one day to recetYC hearts like Alexandra's into its bosom, to give them...yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining ey«s of youth! THE END . BOOKBINDING CO. 53 ft '1ST 005 5 •ITROL MARK 6540 6105 ..... 045 '000 598... | |
 | Granville Hicks - 1935 - 364 pages
...tribute to the values they embodied. "Fortunate country," she says in the last sentence of the book, "that is one day to receive hearts like Alexandra's...the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!" What makes Miss Cather's elegiacism — in O Pioneers!, My Antonia, parts of The Song of the Lark,... | |
 | Vernon Loggins - 1967 - 396 pages
...Cather derived the title is the theme of the novel — an old theme, the oldest in American literature. "Fortunate country — that is one day to receive...bosom, to give them out again in the yellow wheat, the rustling corn, the shining eyes of youth." But this theme can never seem old when developed with... | |
 | Willa Cather - 1983 - 462 pages
...friends marry, they are safe." Gather's summary elegy is contained in the last lines of the novel: "Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts...the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!" The power of 0 Pioneers! lies in Gather's resolve to raise what Ellen Moers in Literary Women calls... | |
 | Susie Thomas - 1990 - 228 pages
...and that tidings do not reach him from the New World"' (183). And yet O Pioneers! ends triumphantly: 'Fortunate country that is one day to receive hearts...the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!' (309). After so much death and despair it is difficult to see how such ecstatic optimism can be justified.... | |
 | Jo Ann Middleton - 1990 - 192 pages
...book, which is also foreshadowed by Alexandra's feeling that her own heart was "hiding down there": "Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts...the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!" (309). At this last point in the book, however, Gather uses the vacuole for timing and distancing;... | |
 | Gary Brienzo - 1994 - 132 pages
...own world, so that Gather could conclude the novel with one of her greatest literary affirmations. "Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts...the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!" 12 Alexandra is also significant in Gather's fiction as a transitional female hero, one midway between... | |
 | Willa Cather - 1994 - 260 pages
...destiny of eternal renewal. For once her heart is buried in the earth's bosom, it will live forever "in the yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!" Alexandra has grown older in the novel, from a girl to a mature woman, but the earth promises to give... | |
 | Tom Quirk - 1993 - 198 pages
...association and friendship with Joseph Vaillant. Alexandra Bergson's story ends with the prediction of her death: "Fortunate country, that is one day to receive...wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!"32 For Jim Burden, Antonia's face and gestures "somehow reveal the meaning in common things";... | |
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Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts like Alexandra's into its bosom, to give them out again in the yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth! 
