Resumen de La poesia italiana dopo il 1975. Due reazioni psicologiche e formali
Italian Poetry after 1975: Psychological and Formal Reactions · Since the mid-70s the representations of the poetry scene in contemporary Italy has been characterized by fragmentation and a sense of chaos even more emphasized in the last two decades of the twentieth century and the first two of the new millennium. There are two typical reactions to all this : euphoria and dysphoria. On the one side the idea that poetry in the old sense is always to be reborn from its own ashes, on the other the anti-sublime tendency in a kind of Freudian Trauerarbeit (the work of mourning) for poetry’s death, after which no longer can a poet rely on inspiration : he must write in cold blood, using all the tools offered by tradition – intertextual quotations, montage, multi-lingual issues –, and be skilled in the cold-blood, conscious use of metric and rhetoric tools. These two reactions, the myth of the ever new origins and the sense of the end of poetry, can find a common ground in the emphasis on a clear, natural, immediately communicative language.
