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Chapter 139: mistiche
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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.

mistiche

Simili a gru, migranti ad oriente,

trasvolavan le Mistiche, in sì mite,

in sì celestial sogno rapite,

ch'ogni atto lor ne sorridea eloquente.

Del passato obliose, del presente

inconscie, già viventi delle vite

serafiche, già assunte alle infinite

promesse, il cui promettitor non mente.

Già le fronti raggianti, quasi incluse

nell'aureola. Già le lunghe ciglia,

quasi abbagliate dal fulgor, socchiuse.

Già presso al limitar della vallea

sacra, ove il re in clamide vermiglia

dirà a ciascuna: — Veni Sponsa mea.