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    A Study Guide for Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Variations on Nothing"
    A Study Guide for Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Variations on Nothing"
    A Study Guide for Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Variations on Nothing"
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    A Study Guide for Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Variations on Nothing"

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    A Study Guide for Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Variations on Nothing," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535842068
    A Study Guide for Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Variations on Nothing"

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      A Study Guide for Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Variations on Nothing" - Gale

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      Variations on Nothing

      Giuseppe Ungaretti

      1950

      Introduction

      Giuseppe Ungaretti's poem Variations on Nothing first appeared in his 1950 collection La terra promessa (The Promised Land), published in Italy. Some early critics felt the collection marked a different style from Ungaretti's typical truncated images and brief lines, yet today the collection is heralded as one of his best works. Even if the poems in this collection take up a little more space on the page than Ungaretti's early poems, they are undeniably still sparse, compelling, and highly imagistic.

      In Variations on Nothing, as in many of Ungaretti's works, the poet concentrates on a single, simple idea and fleshes it out with powerful, descriptive words. The subject in this poem is the fleeting time of human life and the endurance of nonhuman earthly objects. An hourglass may depend on a person's hand to turn it over in order to repeat its measurement of time, but when the hand is gone, the object continues to measure the passing of time. While the overall message is philosophical and obviously abstract, the poet conveys this message with precise images of tangible objects and real-life moments that are both striking and

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