That's one of my favourite Ungaretti poems!
At 7:53 AM +0000 14/3/02, Christopher Walker wrote:
>I'm not sure Pater's point, modernised, is that music _has no meaning_ but
>that a condition of non-referentiality, in which *form* and *content*
>distinctions melt or are elided, is an aspiration and that music can often
>appear to be further along that road.
I think that's where I assume poetry begins. I mean, I can't
separate form and content in poetry, which is why the container
metaphor for meaning seems totally nonsensical to me.
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