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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Ungaretti: What would I want with images?


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Waves on sandy beach, Cabo Polonio, Uruguay: photo by Johntex, 2006




..These wandering landscapes of the ocean's

Shifting surface, the incisive

Candour of daybreak on these

Or those leaves: these things no longer

Draw me; nor can my old eyes make

Out light from shade against the stones.



..Forgot, what would I want

With images?



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Leaves of European Birch (Fagus): photo by The cat, 2006



..Non più m'attragano i paesaggi erranti

Del mare, né dell'alba il lacerante

Pallore sopra queste o quelle foglie;

Nemmeno più contrasto col macigno,

Antica notte che sugli occhi porto.


..Le immagini a che prò

Per me dimenticata?



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Foggy sunset with Brown Pelicans: photo by Mila Zinkova, 2009


Giuseppe Ungaretti: Poem IX (Non più m'attragano i paesaggi erranti) from Cori descrittivi di stati d'animo di Didone (Choruses Descriptive of the State of Mind of Dido), in La terra promessa (The Promised Land), 1950; translation by TC

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