Abstract
The essay analyzes the first two compositions of the unfinished "Epistole entomologiche", focusing on the themes that cross
the entire collection and testify its organicity. The metamorphic dynamics, the work of Nature, the
analogy between the destiny of man and that of the butterfly, the coexistence but also the contrast
between life and death, the sacrifice, the succession of opposites are, for the last Gozzano, the subject of a new poetry, which will be represented by forms of expression different from the logic of the first two collections. These forms will be the privileged object of this investigation. Dante’s Commedia work and style are the indispensable formal model of the verses dedicated to butterflies, wich are influenced, even if indirectly, by the various voices of the philosophical reflection that reacts to Positivism
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] «History of five hundred vanesse» and «The butterflies»: Gozzano towards a «winged awakening» of poetry? |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Pages (from-to) | 53-72 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | TESTO |
| Volume | 39 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Dante
- Entomological epistles
- Epistole entomologiche
- Gozzano
- analisi retorica
- new poetry
- poesia nuova
- poetic of conversion
- poetica della conversione
- rhetorical analysis