Re: CHAT: Ungaretti's Use of Language

In a message dated 2000:09:12 7:20:32 AM, pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU writes:

>>     The line comes from the poem "Soldati" [soldiers] which Ungaretti
>wrote
>>in 1918.
>>     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.
>
    It's like haiku poetry. :) (esp'ly the Zen death poems samurai used to
write before entering battle...)
    Or the Chinese poems about being in exile or guarding the far outposts of
the Middle Kingdom.

    czHANg