L'Allegria [#books #review]

by Giuseppe Ungaretti

Rating: 8/10

M'illumino
d'immenso

I illuminate (myself)
with immensity

(English translation found HERE)

I don't always have a good relationship with poems, so it helped a lot in reading this collection that for the most part the poems were very short (and in any case the shortest ones were by far the most beautiful!). Sometimes I suffered from the absence of an explanation, but luckily there was not a real need for that: even though I didn't always understand the poems, I was still able to appreciate the beauty of the words and the sensations they conveyed.

Quotes

SOLDATI
Bosco di Courton luglio 1918

Si sta come
d'autunno
sugli alberi
le foglie

SOLDATI
Bosco di Courton july 1918

It's like being
in the autumn
on the trees
the leaves