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Lirica

Chapter 57: ETISIA.
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A collection of lyrical poems voiced by a young speaker who explores love, desire, identity, and destiny through intimate confessions, prophetic scenes, and religious meditation. Varied moods alternate between passionate eroticism, ironic cosmopolitan self-definition, and moral or spiritual yearning; poems address betrayal, longing, the feminine sensibility, cultural displacement, and imaginative escape. Imagery ranges from quotidian domestic details to visionary religious tableaux, while the voice shifts between defiant proclamations, tender supplication, and ironic critique of convention. The poems blend musical lines and vivid color to present a candid, emotionally intense survey of inner life and poetic ambition.

ETISIA.

M'hanno detto di te, pallido amante,

Che per fatalità tremenda e oscura,

Sulla tragica via della sventura

Ti conducea la sorte.

M'hanno detto che già l'ombra del nulla

Avea steso su te mani fatali.

M'hanno detto che i baci eran mortali

Delle tue labbra smorte.

Dammi l'alito tuo, dammi il veleno!

Acre è il gaudio, terribile il piacere

Dalla tua triste bocca poter bere

La voluttà e la morte!