Dietro il silenzio, oltre il silenzio: la poesia di Andrea Zanzotto

Abstract

In Andrea Zanzotto’s poetry the relationship between the landscape –which is the main topic of his writings– and the language that represents it can be evaluated according to the transformation of the theme of the silence, over the period that goes from the Fifties to nowadays. In the first poetic collections, before La Beltà  (1968), the landscape and the silence that inhabits it are set out as absolute value, which are entire and separated from the subject. On the contrary in Zanzotto’s following collections the landscape and the silence are dislocated and disintegrated as well as the subject is, until the silence is replaced by the erosion of words and by the dumbness.