Gone with the Wind (film) have been explicitly referenced, satirized, dramatized and analyzed on numerous occasions across a range of media, from contemporaneous works such as "Second Fiddle"—a 1939 film spoofing the "search for Scarlett"—to current television shows, such as "The Simpsons". "The Scarlett O'Hara War" (a 1980 television dramatization of the casting of Scarlett), "Moonlight and Magnolias" (a 2007 play by Ron Hutchinson that dramatizes Ben Hecht's five-day re-write of the script), and "Went with the Wind!" (a sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show" that parodied the film in the aftermath of its television debut in 1976) are among the more noteworthy examples of
Gone with the Wind (novel) she wonders to herself if her home on a plantation called "Tara" is still standing, or if it had "gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia." In a general sense, the title is a metaphor for the demise of a way of life in the South prior to the Civil War. When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about "Cynara," the phrase "gone with the wind" alludes to erotic loss. The poem expresses the regrets of someone who has lost his passionate feelings for his "old passion," Cynara. Dowson's Cynara, a name that comes from the Greek