On the Threshold

What metaphors are used in On the Threshold by Eugenio Montale?

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Stanza 2 takes up the idea of the wind as a metaphor for creativity and life. The whirring sound the person in the garden is hearing is not "flight" (that is, not something in the orchard moving away) but something "stirring" from within the "eternal womb"—a breath of new life, unconnected to the dead web of the past.