of Nicola D'Ugo
[ Heaney, Seamus , North , Mondadori, Milano 1998, 150 pp. Edited by Roberto Mussapi.]
What the Irish have in common with the Vikings? How can the broken thread of the story be solo assottigliato a perdita d'occhio? Perché l'archeologia può farsi motivo antropologico di riconoscimento sentimentale? Ce lo spiega il Premio Nobel Seamus Heaney in North , una raccolta poetica del 1975 che esce solo ora per i tipi Mondadori.
Rifacendosi a The Bog People (Il popolo delle torbiere) dell'archeologo danese P. V. Glob, Heaney instaura un colloquio con una serie di personaggi dell'età del ferro, focalizzando l'attenzione su ciò che resta dei loro corpi straordinariamente preservati nelle torbiere. La pietà è rivolta a personaggi malridotti, di cui ci restano però alcuni stupefacenti tratti del volto. Sono anzitutto dei condannati a morte, per cui l'enunciazione Heaney felt pity for you and motivated to humans, such as feeling of brotherhood and love. But it is also on trial himself and blindness ethnic, cultural, highlighting the appearance of a closed world within the confines of a culture and of a custom. Probably - Heaney tells us - if I had taken part in the capital of one of those characters from the Iron Age, I would like everyone, that I would have refrained from saving!
report this speech on the conflict in Northern Ireland means to identify the reasons omertà, and recognize where fear resides in respect of the British police and terrorists Republicans and unionists. Revenge of Germany, whose value does not seem to have abandoned the old contemporary Ireland, is listed as one of the feelings more strongly ingrained in culture and not to the precultural. Solidarity can not be silence, but must be accompanied by a love that knows how to make sense of secular. So the aspiration of independence Heaney is to bring to light and to reaffirm not only annoying antiquity, but the commitments of civilians abandoned Western poets: Whitman, Rimbaud and Owen (see "The Dream of the legislature misunderstood").
The writing is so detailed and evocative, and stripped carnificata vision, which tangibly cruel, horrible and obscene it becomes peaceful contemplation of the thing observed, trembling word of love. Do not avenge their relatives killed, cut the direct line of hatred and its claim to become civil commitment, not an act of omission. Gunnar who sings the 'threshold megalithic "while watching the moon is the paradoxical image of the Germanic conquest of natural beauty, its reaffirmation of the radical, in which the desire of the song of love and beauty heavenly agree dominating vertical space that seems not have limits and measures.
The poet's voice is taken at the level of sharing and the common path. Means that the reader has to do with a letter on ivory tower of their visions. To achieve this friendship and lower tone, he uses an intimacy that, as he himself suggested, it looks like the 'dance' to the rhythm of sound and moving images. Through the harmony sound system, often in very harsh consonants and vowels in the hot end of verse, Heaney invented a language of sounds that opens, for transit of illuminations, a path in the darkness of the North. The antiquity of modern man, buried him in but not lost, emerges to suggest as a slogan than a mere word of mouth which we no longer know the source: Retrieves to your human nature that is inherent in the . Dial in the dark and wait until dawn and not beyond, as well as in the loop hole up in turmoil and in the glare of his own brain, it means asking, according to the suggestion eponymous song that gives the title to the collection, within a threshold of self-worth that is not dictated by the hand on and betrayal of a tradition.
This collection of Heaney stands among the highest in English literature of all time and the top of the European poetry of this century. His unexpected narrative becomes the means to undertake a proper path, hand in hand, in the dense swamp of obscure men who want to abandon the war without giving up the right not to be subjugated.
[posted in: News ... Backlight, No VIII/3-4, March-April 1999, p. 2 . ]
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