L'infinito

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L'infinito is a celebrated lyric poem by Giacomo Leopardi that meditates on the boundlessness of nature and the human imagination.

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instanceOf Italian poem
lyric poem
poem
author Giacomo Leopardi
centralImage a hedge blocking the view
a solitary hill
compositionPeriod circa 1819
considered one of the greatest poems in Italian literature
contrasts finite human perception with infinite imagination
countryOfOrigin Italy
famousLine e il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare
firstLine Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle
form idyll
genre lyric poetry
hasPerspective philosophical meditation on the infinite
influenced Italian Romantic poetry
language Italian
lineCount 15
literaryDevice alliteration
enjambment
hyperbole
metaphor
personification
simile
literaryMovement Romanticism
meter endecasillabo (Italian hendecasyllable)
narrativeVoice first person
originalTitle L'infinito
partOf Leopardi's small idylls (idilli)
rhymeScheme irregular
setting a solitary hill near Recanati
studiedIn Italian schools
subjectOf numerous literary commentaries
symbol hedge as limit of perception
infinite space beyond the hedge
silence and deep quiet
the wind in the plants
theme contemplation
human finitude
imagination
infinity
metaphysical reflection
nature
the sublime
titleTranslation the Infinite
surface form: The Infinite
tone contemplative
melancholic
sublime

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Giacomo Leopardi notableWork L'infinito
Canti notablePoem L'infinito
this entity surface form: L’infinito