Published 2024-12-15
Keywords
- narrativity in 20th century poetry,
- verb tenses,
- 20th century metrics
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Copyright (c) 2024 Paolo Giovannetti
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Abstract
The ‘poemetto’ (long poem) Dopo Campoformio displays weak characters of narrativity, despite the most common critical judgements. Over the years, Roversi achieved a particular type of linear structure, with few hierarchies, lyrically oriented, enhancing the characteristics of the individual compositions. The kind of verbal and metrical temporality thereby obtained denotes a problematic relationship with history, in part homologous to the thematic structures: that is, a static present, interrupted by sudden breakthroughs into a painful past or a possible future.