Editing Gone with the Wind (novel) (section)

==Title==

The author tentatively titled the novel ''Tomorrow Is Another Day'', from its last line.<ref>Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy (2008), ''Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books'', Penguin Books, p. 96. {{ISBN|978-0-14-311364-5}}</ref> Other proposed titles included ''Bugles Sang True'', ''Not in Our Stars'', and ''Tote the Weary Load''.<ref name=autogenerated89 /> The title Mitchell finally chose is from the first line of the third stanza of the poem "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae" by [[Ernest Dowson]]:

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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&nbsp;...<ref>Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/non-sum-qualis-eram-bonae-sub-regno-cynarae "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae"]. Retrieved March 31, 2012</ref>}}

Scarlett O'Hara uses the title phrase when she wonders if her home on a plantation called "[[Tara (plantation)|Tara]]" is still standing or if it had "gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia".<ref name=autogenerated9>Part 3, Chapter 24</ref> In a general sense, the title is a metaphor for the demise of a way of life in the South before the Civil War. When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about "Cynara", the phrase "gone with the wind" alludes to erotic loss.<ref>John Hollander, (1981) ''The Figure of Echo: a mode of allusion in Milton and after'', University of California Press, p. 107. {{ISBN|978-0-520-05323-6}}</ref> The poem expresses the regrets of someone who has lost his feelings for his "old passion", Cynara.<ref>William Flesch, (2010) ''The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 19th Century'', Infobase Publishing, p. 89. {{ISBN|978-0-8160-5896-9}}</ref> Dowson's Cynara, a name that comes from the Greek word for [[artichoke]], represents a lost love.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/mar/14/non-sum-qualis-cynarae-dowson Poem of the week: "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae" by Ernest Dowson], Carol Rumen (March 14, 2011) ''The Guardian''. Retrieved January 2, 2014.</ref>

It is also possible that the author was influenced by the connection of the phrase "Gone with the wind" with Tara in a line of [[James Joyce]]’s [[Ulysses (novel)|''Ulysses'']] in the chapter "Aeolus".{{cn|date=September 2023}}