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Giuseppe Ungaretti: Mattina / Morning – parallel texts: words reflected

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Neither lit nor struck, alight or enlightened, illuminated or illumined, but perhaps any of these things because, as Giuseppe Ungaretti himself stated: “Poetry is poetry when it carries within it a…

Neither lit nor struck, alight or enlightened, illuminated or illumined, but perhaps any of these things because, as Giuseppe Ungaretti himself stated: “Poetry is poetry when it carries within it a secret.” Mattina M’illumino d’immenso. Giuseppe Ungaretti Santa Maria La Longa il 26 gennaio 1917 Morning I’m illumined with immensity. Giuseppe Ungaretti Santa Maria La Longa, January 26, 1917 Translation ©Matilda Colarossi 2021 How long does it take to translate four words? And how long does it take when those four words are whispered by a whole nation, the young and the old, at the sight of the r

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