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Yangliu Qingfeng

Yangliu Qingfeng

General Fiction

(uk) Kenneth Grahame

107K7.713

"Breeze in the Willows" is a prose work that uses anthropomorphic animal images to describe pastoral life in England. The writing style is delicate and elegant, the description of nature is rich and smooth, and the story is interesting and full of philosophy. It is known as a model of British prose works. The novel creates a group of vivid animal images: the reckless but kind-hearted toad, the down-to-earth but poetic river rat, the loyal but innocent mole, the stubborn but fatherly old badger, and so on. Each of these vivid images retains the unique habits of animals, but the characters, thoughts, and behaviors of animals have been personified and socialized. The author's focus has transcended animal life and animal souls and invested in human life and spiritual world. Therefore, readers can gain an understanding of human life experience and value.