The aim of this essay is to carry out a stylistic analysis of the language used in a choice of the poems included in the collection This Nothing’s Place by Pasquale Verdicchio, paying particular attention to instances of memory, time and space, which strongly contribute to a re-definition of the poet’s identity through a sense of belonging. Verdicchio’s poetic identity, being strongly influenced by his condition of migrant, finds its expression in a ‘mind style’ which reflects his concerns for these very issues, by means of a number of foregrounding devices: recurrence of lexemes conducible to the same semantic field, repetition and parallelism of syntactic structures. If the poet seems to find his appropriate dimension in a space of spaceless and timeless memory and imagination, this dimension of fluidity finds its stylistic representation in his extensive use of free verse and his limited use of punctuation.
The Language of Belonging in Pasquale Verdicchio's This Nothing's Place
Giuliana Gardellini
2024
Abstract
The aim of this essay is to carry out a stylistic analysis of the language used in a choice of the poems included in the collection This Nothing’s Place by Pasquale Verdicchio, paying particular attention to instances of memory, time and space, which strongly contribute to a re-definition of the poet’s identity through a sense of belonging. Verdicchio’s poetic identity, being strongly influenced by his condition of migrant, finds its expression in a ‘mind style’ which reflects his concerns for these very issues, by means of a number of foregrounding devices: recurrence of lexemes conducible to the same semantic field, repetition and parallelism of syntactic structures. If the poet seems to find his appropriate dimension in a space of spaceless and timeless memory and imagination, this dimension of fluidity finds its stylistic representation in his extensive use of free verse and his limited use of punctuation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.