Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

dialect poem, in order to characterize it, you

were to put another type of utterance, you

would be closer to the truth. Thus it happens

that the many new collections could all

together form a still undefined picture of the

adventures of words in motion.

We should perhaps draw some

conclusions from the little that has been said

so far. In the first place, the marked decrease

of feeling, which was synonymous with the

longing for times past. In second place, and

almost in contrast with certain belated

movements of the national language, the

clash with the new results in an expression

which is no longer semantic, strictly

speaking, but something explosive that will

take future linguists to task.