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Question: Why is the novel "Gone With the Wind" titled that way!?
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Margaret Mitchell wanted to call it "Tomorrow is Another Day" but an editor wanted to use a line from a poem by Ernest Dowson!.
Here's the poem:
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae

Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion!.

All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat,
Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay;
Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
When I awoke and found the dawn was gray:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion!.

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion!.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;
And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, hungry for thelips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee Cynara! in my fashion!.

The title can refer to the passing of many things in the book, but mostly the passing of slavery, plantations, etc!.

PS Scarlett was originally named Pansy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Because the culture and way of life of the southerners, after the Civil War, was just "gone with the wind"!. I did read Mitchells book, and recently read Rhett Butlers People!. I own the movie and watch it when I feel like a little southern hartbreak!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think because all of the things that they were used to, the culture and way of life in the South, just disappeared so quickly when the War came!. Everything they were familiar with was just "Gone with the Wind!."Www@QuestionHome@Com