The speaker contemplates "the boundless silence / of a slender girl" so that "Our two / maladies / run together," in this author's poem "Nostalgia."
The speaker contemplates "the boundless silence / of a slender girl" so that "Our two / maladies / run together," in this author's poem "Nostalgia." The sight of a "slain comrade" with "clawed fingers / ripping / into my silence" and "mouth snarling / at the full moon" prompts the speaker to declare: "Never did I / so / cling to life," in this author's poem "Vigil," which appears alongside his other verses written while serving in the trenches of World War I in his book The Buried Port. English-language editions of this man's poetry often opt not to translate his poem "Morning," which reads, in its entirety, (*) "M'illumino / d'immenso." In attacking the arcane verses of this poet's 1933 collection The Feeling of Time, the critic Francesco Flora coined the name for a group of poets to which he belonged alongside the future Nobel Laureates Salvatore Quasimodo and Eugenio Montale. For 10 points, name this Italian poet who founded the Hermetic school of poetry.
The speaker contemplates "the boundless silence / of a slender girl" so that "Our two / maladies / run together," in this author's poem "Nostalgia."
Giuseppe Ungaretti