letture, poesia

Burnt Norton (first of the Four quartets by Eliot)

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and “one of the twentieth century’s major poets.” Born in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The… Continua a leggere Burnt Norton (first of the Four quartets by Eliot)

letture, poesia

V. So That You Will Hear Me [by Pablo Neruda]

So That You Will Hear Me So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches. Necklace, drunken bellfor your hands smooth as grapes. And I watch my words from a long way off.They are more yours than mine.They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs… Continua a leggere V. So That You Will Hear Me [by Pablo Neruda]