Commiato/ Leave-taking by Giuseppe Ungaretti

parallel texts: words reflected

Commiato Giuseppe Unagretti Gentile Ettore Serra poesia è il mondo l’umanità la propria vita fioriti dalla parola la limpida meraviglia di un delirante fermento Quando trovo in questo mio silenzio una parola scavata è nella mia vita come un abisso

Leave-taking Giuseppe Ungaretti Dear Ettore Serra poetry is the world humanity one’s own life sprung from the word the limpid wonder of a delirious ferment When I find in this silence of mine a word burrowed it is in my life like an abyss Translation ©Matilda Colarossi 2018

The poem “Leave-taking” closes the first edition of the collection “Il porto Sepolto”, entitled “Poesia”. It is fundamental for the understanding of Ungaretti’s relationship with words.

There is no punctuation in this “Letter” to his good friend from the front. The definition of poetry here is, for the author, humanity, and the ability to make what we have in our hearts grow…

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