Saturday, December 23, 2023

UNGARETTI - A UNIQUE ITALIAN POET

 M'ILLUMINO D'IMMENSO

 Mattina, scritta da Giuseppe Ungaretti nel 1917 sul fronte del Carso durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale

Mattina, written by Giuseppe Ungaretti in 1917 on Carso Frontlinr in the 1st Worldwide War


One of the shortest poems I ever read.

Yet it's so intense and moving.

Almost un-translatable

If we want to keep its strength


L'un des plus brefs poèmes

Et cependant si intense et émouvant

Quasi impossible de le traduire

Sans le saccager


Years passed since I first read it and it still moves me

Des années ont passé et je m'en émeus encore


Merci Ungaretti

Thank you for this unique verse   


...et lorsque je regarde quelque chose de merveilleux

...and when I look at something marvelous 

It's

M'illumino d'immenso !




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