What inspired kenneth grahame to write the wind in the willows?

Answer 1

Yes it is

Answer 2

I always wondered this myself, but I think I have your answer. Despite the anthropomorphic good times, the humor and the warmth of this book, I think The Wind in the Willows is a novel about desire, and the pain associated with wanting something very badly. Grahame writes about physical desire: food and comfort and home. He writes about intellectual desire, the need to travel, to stimulate the senses, to experience life. But most importantly, he writes about spiritual desire; how, in the end, we want something we know not what, some experience somewhere that will complete us, satisfy us and let us rest.

In the first chapter, Kenneth Grahame describes the sounds of the wind blowing through reeds, after the Mole has begun his life on the river:

"This day was only the first of many similar ones for the emancipated Mole, each of them longer and fuller of interest as the ripening summer moved onward. He learned to swim and to row, and entered into the joy of running water; and with his ear to the reed stems he caught, at intervals, something of what the wind went whispering so constantly among them."

Graham brings up this theme again in chapter 7: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. In this chapter, Mole and Rat meet Pan, the god of the forest, and they experience such profound joy on seeing him, that Pan makes them forget the meeting so they wont torment themselves with the memory later in life.

""O, Mole. The beauty of it! The merry bubble and joy, the thin, clear, happy call of the distant piping! Such music I never dreamed of, and the call in it is stronger even than the music is sweet! Row on, Mole, row! For the music and the call must be for us."

The mole, greatly wondering, obeyed. "I hear nothing myself," he said "but the wind, playing in the weeds and rushes and osiers.""

In both references the sound of the wind in the rushes is essentially the voice of the ultimate moving through the world. It is the substance of the animal's desire. Kenneth Grahame called his novel The Wind in the Willows, because really that's what his book is about: the voice of the ultimate, the sound of what we want.

Answer 3

Kenneth Grahame was inspired to write "The Wind in the Willows" by his love of nature and the English countryside, particularly the Thames Valley where he spent much of his time. The characters in the book were influenced by his own experiences and interactions with friends, as well as his desire to create a timeless story that captured the essence of friendship and adventure.

Answer 4

They where originally story's Kenneth Grahame told his said but then one of his sons nurses suggested he make them into a story

Answer 5

The story was written between l905 and l908. l905 dates appear on automobile license-plates in some editions.