THE WILLOWS

The Willows

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The first-person narrator and his companion, a Swedish man, are on a canoe journey, intending to journey the whole length of the Danube stream to the very dark Sea. The stream is in inundate and has swiftly conveyed them into Hungary and a completely untamed and uninhabited area. As far as the eye can see, there is nothing on either bank but limitless clusters of large willow bushes. (Joshi 2006)

They conclude to stop overnight on one of the many small isles dotting the river, and on setting up camp are nearly directly battled by two strange views that serve ...