L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria

Year 22 No. 1-2 (2014): Issue 1-2/2014
Articles

Le sirene, la poesia, la morte. Appunti su Omero e Pascoli

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  • Marco Corradini

Published 10/10/2014

Keywords

  • Pascoli Giovanni,
  • Sirens,
  • Homer

How to Cite

Corradini, M. (2014). Le sirene, la poesia, la morte. Appunti su Omero e Pascoli. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 22(1-2), 144–184. Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/264
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Abstract

Even though the Sirens’ song poses a deadly threat to whoever listens to it, it is also paralleled to knowledge and poetry itself. The present study examines the Homeric archetype and its rewriting in Giovanni Pascoli’s Ultimo viaggio (in Poemi conviviali, 1904), with a view to illustrating how in the former case the Sirens are a danger to steer clear of, while in the latter they are the ultimate goal of Ulysses’ quest for identity and the absolute – yet, this time the Sirens are silent and elusive.

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