WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Le seduzioni - Le vergini folli cover

Le seduzioni - Le vergini folli

Chapter 112: I.
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

The collection gathers lyrical sequences and sonnets in a confessional voice that probes modern female identity, desire, and social performance. One extended autobiographical sequence composed of many thirteen-line terzine reads like a novel without plot, tracing appetite, flirtation, indifference, and the exhilaration of urban fashion and nightlife; other poems, including more compact sonnets, record earlier romantic suffering and youthful passions. The speaker juxtaposes classical female archetypes with a contemporary Parisian model to explore ambivalence toward love, liberty, and reputation, using vivid sensory detail, psychological introspection, and recurring images of gaze, costume, jealousy, and theatricalized seduction.

UN RITORNO

I.

Simili a sonaglietti aspri, dal vento

scossi, o da mani assai lievi di gnomi,

trillano i grilli, immersi negli aromi

del prato, il loro ridere d'argento.

A me che torno, trangugiando un lento

veleno: amaro di disdegni indomi,

dicon saluti e mi rivolgon nomi

teneri, con il lor piccolo accento.

— Folle sorella, ben ritorni a noi,

ma quello che cercasti fra la gente,

per terra e per mare, lo trovasti poi?

Io non posso rispondere, o non so;

mi butterei fra i timi acri e le mente

per soffocarvi un disperato: — No!