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Chapter 158: il male
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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.

il male

S'appiatta, a guisa d'aspide che dorme,

dentro il più tortuoso penetrale

del cuore, questo immedicabil male,

lo soffoca talor, incubo enorme.

V'imprime gravi e oscure le sue orme,

sigle roventi del dolor vitale,

che il calmo orgoglio del voler non vale

a cancellar con le sue fredde norme.

Se lo lambisce con insidiosa

lingua, v'incita l'anelare muto

che invan dissimulato arde e non posa.

Ma, se lo morde, il cuor ch'è solo grida

ad invocar perdutamente aiuto,

perchè il mal violento non lo uccida.