L’opus contra naturam di Montale
ISSN 2611-1470
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
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L’opus contra naturam di Montale
The beginning of the Qohélet is about beginnings and the return of beginnings. The sun rises, sets and goes back to the place it rises from; the wind goes South and then turns to North; the rivers go back to the source, “revenrtuntur”. This is the archetype. The original code, the “logos”, the “anima mundi”, not getting lost in dispersion. It means going back to the elements, air, water, fire, earth. Time represented as the ouroboros snake, eating its own tail. Montale’s rivers are time made of water, thinking about itself, going back to the source before the right time. And if it is not the river, it is the eel dating the course. “Il mio fiume” by Ungaretti at the beginning is full of a word: “now”. It is repeated sixteen times, sometimes in uppercase. In the last part the word in “Saint”, also in uppercase. Poetry wants to be sacred in time.
The river flows from its source, which is an eternal tomorrow, as de Unamuno wrote in his sonnet LXXXVIII. Words run out in Word’s echo. This is the “contempus mundi”. The attraction to the archetype, the glorious shipwreck. Vanishing is therefore the venture of ventures.
