Scarica RIASSUNTO WILFRED OWEN, GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI, EUGENIO MONTALE, HERNEST HEMINGWAY, SALVATORE e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! MODULO 3 INGLESE 1. WILFRED OWEN (ENGLISH, 1893 – 1918) DULCE ET DECORUM EST (1920) Wilfred Owen was an English poet born in 1893 in a small town near Wales. He moved to France to teach, but in 1915 he returned to England to join the army. Later he went to fight in France in 1918, where he was decorated for valor and killed just before the end of the war, on the Sombre Canal. He was called a "war poet" for his vision of war, initially positive and then negative after experiencing life in the trenches. This led him to reject the traditional characteristics of the twentieth century, as can be seen from his poems, which contain many half rhymes, assonances and alliterations. His most famous work was Dolce et Decorum est, a poem against the horror of war and the ignorance of patriotism, of sending young people to their deaths. The central part of the poem is about gas, the terrible new chemical weapon of the First World War, seen as a nightmare. The soldier-poet emerges in the last verse, where he follows the chariot carrying dead or dying bodies, inviting the reader to go and see the horror of war. 2. GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI (ITALIAN, 1888 – 1970) IL PORTO SEPOLTO (1916) Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian poet born in Alexandria in Egypt in 1888. He is considered the founder of the hermetic movement which led to the reorientation of modern Italian poetry. He wrote The Buried Harbor in 1916, a collection of poems written while on the battlefield during the First World War. All the poems are dated individually and used neither rhyme, nor punctuation, nor the traditional form, breaking away from tradition. Subsequently, in 1919, he wrote Allegria di naufraghi, a collection of revised poems that refer to tradition, especially to Leopardi. Ungaretti described poetry as the ability to express oneself "with absolute candor, as if it were the first day of creation" and stated that "the ideal writer should use the minimum number of words". In fact, he advised other writers to use a more concise language. 3. EUGENIO MONTALE (ITALIAN, 1896 – 1981) OSSI DI SEPPIA (1925), SATURA (1967) Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, critic and translator born in Genoa in 1896. He was the son of a prosperous northern family and from a young age he studied to become an opera singer, until in 1923 he was called into the army. Only later did he start composing poetry. In 1925 he published his first collection of poetry, entitled Ossi di seppia, which expresses postwar pessimism. It seemed to him that most life choices were, at best, clumsy attempts to make sense. Later he moved to Florence, where his importance in Italian poetics was recognized. His most famous poem of him is Meriggiare pallido e assorto , where he compares life, full of suffering, to a walk on a wall, trying to overcome this obstacle but without succeeding despite seeing beyond . Before he died in 1981, he won the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. 4. ERNEST HEMINGWAY (AMERICAN, 1899 – 1961) SELECTED QOUTES (1926) Ernest Hemingway was an American poet born in 1899 in Illinois. As soon as America entered the war he tried to enlist but they continually refused him due to an eye problem. In 1918, however, he was enlisted as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was wounded and awarded a silver medal by the Italian government. In 1926 he published the novel The Sun Rises, known as Fiesta in Great Britain. This work was an outstanding depiction of the bright and reckless lives of American expatriates in Paris in the 1920s and featured Jake Barnes, a man who became barren due to a war wound, symbolic Hemingway claims the men and women who lived through the war got psychologically and morally lost, the so-called 'Lost Generation'. Furthermore, he wanted to superimpose the importance of survival in war, putting the brave hero in the background.
