Re: CHAT: Ungaretti's Use of Language

Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Leo Caesius wrote:
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> >     Actually, it's the whole poem.  Ungaretti frequently writes very
> >concise poems,
>
> Highly commendable in a poet. :)
>
> >they are like leaves on the trees in Autumn
> >
> >"one stands like, in Autumn, on the trees, the leaves."
>
> About says it all, really.
This sounds quite a bit like the poetic counterpart to the music of
Anton Webern. The times on his Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10, are
0:41, 0:30, 1:56, 0:30, and 0:54. The whole set lasts less than 5
minutes. His Symphony, Op. 21 lasts less than 10. He was writing around
the same time period...early 20th century.

> Padraic.
>
> >-Chollie
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