To understand what things have gone with the wind, at first, we need to mention about the setting of the novel. The story takes place in Georgia, mostly in Atlanta, during the Civil War of the 1860's. However, important sections also took place in Tara, the plantation home of the O’Hara family. The story begins with the Civil War and expands seven or eight years after the war, a period during which the "old south" with its elegance, wealth and aristocratic traditions is subjected to a federally plan called "Radical Reconstruction." Atlanta is first burned and then reestablished by Yankees who prosper while southerners who stick hopelessly …show more content…
In the poem “Cynara”, “gone with the wind” refers to the loss of love. In the novel, Scarlett O'Hara uses the phrase when she wonders if her home on a plantation called "Tara" is still standing or if it is "gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia." In my opinion, what has gone with the wind is the dream of the Southerners about a prosperous civilization with highest old tradition that would last forever but now was swept away by the wind of