Spoon River

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• Antologia di Spoon River

  La presentazione e le recensioni di Antologia di Spoon River di Edgar Lee Masters. Da quando Cesare Pavese la presentò nel 1941 nella bella traduzione di Fernanda Pivano, Spoon River Anthology non ha conosciuto soste nella fortuna presso il pubblico ... (read full critics)

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  "This is life's sorrow:
  That one can be happy only where two are;
  And that our hearts are drawn to stars
  Which want us not."

  Bellissimo nella sua semplicità.
  Malinconico, a tratti commovente e molto profondo.
  Queste poesie, una volta lette, continuano ad aleggia ... (continue)

  "This is life's sorrow:
  That one can be happy only where two are;
  And that our hearts are drawn to stars
  Which want us not."

  Bellissimo nella sua semplicità.
  Malinconico, a tratti commovente e molto profondo.
  Queste poesie, una volta lette, continuano ad aleggiarti attorno come un fugace ricordo.
  O come un vecchio rimpianto.

  "Kissing her with my soul upon my lips
  It suddenly took flight."

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  Dippold the optician

  What do you see now?
  Globes of red, yellow, purple.
  Just a moment! And now?
  My father and mother and sisters.
  Yes! And now?
  Knights at arms, beautiful women, kind faces.
  Try this.
  A field of grain -- a city.
  Very good! And Now?
  A young woman with angels bending ov ... (continue)

  Dippold the optician

  What do you see now?
  Globes of red, yellow, purple.
  Just a moment! And now?
  My father and mother and sisters.
  Yes! And now?
  Knights at arms, beautiful women, kind faces.
  Try this.
  A field of grain -- a city.
  Very good! And Now?
  A young woman with angels bending over her.
  A heavier lens! And Now?
  Many women with bright eyes and open lips.
  Try this.
  Just a goblet on a table.
  Oh I see! Try this lens!
  Just an open space -- I see nothing in particular.
  Well, now!
  Pine trees, a lake, summer sky.
  That's better. And now?
  A book.
  Read a page for me.
  I can't. My eyes are carried beyond the page.
  Try this lens.
  Depths of air.
  Excellent! and now?
  Light, just light, making everything below a toy world.
  Very well, we'll make the glasses accordingly.
  

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  The earth keeps some vibration going
  There in your heart, and that is you.

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  Theodore

  "Theodore il poeta"

  "In gioventù, Theodore,
  te ne stavi lunghe ore
  Sulla sponda del torbido Spoon
  I tuoi occhi intenti fissando al pertugio della tana d’un gambero,
  Nell’attesa della sua comparsa, quando avrebbe svolto innanzi
  Dapprima le vibranti antenne, quali culmi di fieno,
  E di seguito il corp ... (continue)

  "Theodore il poeta"

  "In gioventù, Theodore,
  te ne stavi lunghe ore
  Sulla sponda del torbido Spoon
  I tuoi occhi intenti fissando al pertugio della tana d’un gambero,
  Nell’attesa della sua comparsa, quando avrebbe svolto innanzi
  Dapprima le vibranti antenne, quali culmi di fieno,
  E di seguito il corpo, color saponaria,
  Gemmato d’occhi giaietto. E ti chiedevi assorto
  Che ne sapesse, cosa sfiorasse il suo desiderio, ed il fine ultimo della sua esistenza.
  Sinché ti volgesti a uomini e donne
  Rintanati nel destino di grandi città,
  Attendendo che le loro anime uscissero,
  Sì da poter vedere
  Come vivessero, e a quale scopo,
  E il motivo che l’induceva a strisciare con cotanta alacrità
  Lungo la sabbiosa via ove l’acqua dispare
  Allorché l’estate declina."

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  "Theodore the Poet"

  "As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours
  On the shore of the turbid Spoon
  With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish’s burrow,
  Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead,
  First his waving antennæ, like straws of hay,
  And soon his body, colored like soap-stone,
  Gemmed with eyes of jet.
  And you wondered in a trance of thought
  What he knew, what he desired, and why he lived at all.
  But later your vision watched for men and women
  Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities,
  Looking for the souls of them to come out,
  So that you could see
  How they lived, and for what,
  And why they kept crawling so busily
  Along the sandy way where water fails
  As the summer wanes."

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  Fling yourselves in the fire, die with a song of spring,
  If die you must in the spring.

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  Indimenticabile.

  Mi pare che Masters sia riuscito a rappresentare le persone così come esse sono, irriducibili anche dopo la morte!

  William and Emily

  THERE is something about Death
  Like love itself!
  If with some one with whom you have known passion,
  And the glow of youthful love,
  You also, after years of ... (continue)

  Mi pare che Masters sia riuscito a rappresentare le persone così come esse sono, irriducibili anche dopo la morte!

  William and Emily

  THERE is something about Death
  Like love itself!
  If with some one with whom you have known passion,
  And the glow of youthful love,
  You also, after years of life 5
  Together, feel the sinking of the fire,
  And thus fade away together,
  Gradually, faintly, delicately,
  As it were in each other’s arms,
  Passing from the familiar room— 10
  That is a power of unison between souls
  Like love itself!

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• Libri Italiani
• Paperback 66 Pages
• ISBN-10: 8804419466
• ISBN-13: 9788804419464
• Publisher: Mondadori
• Pub date: Jun 01, 1996
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Boxset, Softcover, Others and eBook
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