3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man’s dreams, man’s illness, man’s redemption from the misery of poverty – poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo Thus, the poet’s word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man’s expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
