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Giuseppe Ungaretti

Sono un poeta
un grido unanime
sono un grumo di sogni

Sono un frutto
d’innumerevoli contrasti d’innesti
maturato in una serra

Ma il tuo popolo è portato
dalla stessa terra
che mi porta
Italia

E in questa uniforme
di tuo soldato
mi riposo
come fosse la culla
di mio padre


Giuseppe Ungaretti

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existence identity Italian nationalism translation

Translations of this Poem

Italy

I am a poet
a unanimous cry
I am a particle of dreams

I am a fruit
of countless diverse graftings
ripened in a hot-house

But your People are carried
by the same earth
that carries me
Italy

In this uniform
a soldier of yours
I take my rest
as if the cradle
of my father

Source: from Like Leaves in Autumn - Responses to the War Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti edited by Carlo Pirozzi and Katherine Lockton (Edinburgh: Luath Books, 2015), translated by Heather Scott. Reproduced by kind permission of the translator.
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