The Wall (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eugenio Montale
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Sea or seafaring life, Beaches or seashores, Ants, Sun, Sleep, Hearing, Vision, Heat
The Poem
“The Wall” is a short poem in irregular verse, its seventeen lines divided into four stanzas. The author believed that titles often mislead or constrict the reader’s understanding of poems—thus this poem has no title in the original Italian. In being untitled, it is like most of the other poems in Ossi di seppia (1925; Bones of the Cuttlefish, 1984); it differs from the majority of Eugenio Montale’s works, however, in that it is written from an impersonal point of view.
“The Wall” opens with a situation common in the sunny...
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