marcin
(Marcin)
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face of the new conditioning caused by the
nuclear threat, raises a song of hope, so that
men will not give up: the day of liberation
will come; in such a wait, the poet wants to
wear “a new skin” and instill new life to his
song, dispelling any disheartenment.
In La paglia bruciata (1968), in addition to
recounting the story of the Cervi brothers,
exemplum of his social and political
commitment, the poet retraces the stages of
his existence: he looks into himself and
observes human passions. Here and there, he
adopts the expressive patterns of narrative
poetry, a bit like Pavese’s Lavorare stanca,
but in his own way. And he also goes from
certain satirical tones of the previous works
to the comical and grotesque, while his
poetry becomes more elaborate and indulges
in a few catchy plays on words; his poetry
becomes more cultured and less spoken,