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d’immenso
Giuseppe Ungaretti 1933
Morning
‘I flood myself with light of the immense’
...The real point of Ungaretti’s insight is the effect of any vast reality of the physical universe on the human soul. Far from dismaying the poet.., it leaves him exhilarant, with a sense of expansion, of inner radiance. The poet is not illuminated from without by sea or sky; he illuminated himself by the contact: the fire of his own soul burns high and clear in its excitement...
(from notes by JF Nims in ‘The Poem Itself’, Penguin Books, 1960
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