marcin
(Marcin)
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simple sketches are replaced by satirical and
polemical comments that strike at the
government and its Ministers, the Cardinals,
the officials. At times Marini’s verses, who
does not stray far from the usual trite and
vapid themes, finds a genuine parodistic
vein which, however, gets soon diluted in
the ritual of images and in the standard
repertory of scenes that never approach
Belli’s human and poetic sensibility. It is
clear that the aforementioned poets lack the
participation and adherence to the world
they are representing and evoking, and they
lack the conviction that poetry must be
something other than descriptivity tout-
court.
They don’t even have that generic
disenchantment (non-committal, for some
critics) shown later by Trilussa as he crossed
the broken doors of fairy-tales, which are