Página 272 - Anais do IV Seminário Leituras da Modernidade: entornos da poesia

ABSTRACT
In 1931, the final edition of L'Allegria, from the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, was
published. The poems, written "in the middle of the trench", express the need of
speaking from a poet who was in the First World War. This urgency is revealed in an
extremely concise poetic, because it was necessary to focus on the language "all the
reality of the particle which was given to the poet to realize", like it was said by the
writer. Therefore, the isolated word and the break of the syntax are features of this
work, leaving, in some poems, some haiku reminiscences. That act of living in negation,
the vital impulse multiplied by the closeness of death, brings to the poetry a take of
consciousness not only of the human condition but, also, from being alive, at each
moment. And, these moments are immortalized, universalized and potentialized by the
poetic image since, in its essence, says the unspeakable for carry itself the "plurality of
real". There are qualities, feelings and meanings that united in the image seem to
present us the perception of a moment, the experience of the real. Therefore, this work
want to, from the reflections of the writer and reviewer Octavio Paz, discuss these
expansible images that express what the language was impossible to translate.
Especially the images related to light, its fascination and its mirage. "Parole-luce",
expression from the own poet, that is capable to "enlighten", even for a few moments,
the impenetrable mystery of the Universe inherent to human beings.
KEYWORDS
Poetic image; Trench poetry; Parole-luce; Modern Italian poetry; Giuseppe Ungaretti.