Yes, Montale's poetry, in Occasioni & Bufera e altro, is a complex balance
of contrasts between, for one thing, the poet's doubts & despair & the
Beatrice-like metaphysical confidence of his "muse"; between the poet's
sense of isolation & abandonment (by her) and his own growing wonder
inspired by her "absence/presence"; between the hope & courage her
confidence brings & the hopelessness & disgust emanating from 20th-century
history. . . but this is only one of Montale's themes! - another is
dramatized by his relation to another "muse", "the Vixen" -
Henry
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