The Decadent, born in France around to 1880 among the contributors to the magazine <
* Lack of confidence in reason and science: just the pure intuition and sensitivity can help us to penetrate deep into the mysteries of life;
* insulation from the surrounding society: it loses faith in the possibility literature to affect in the great social and political transformations of the new era;
* BOOST Of his individuality, its <
* SENSE OF CRISIS OF DEATH, anxiety and loneliness.
The need to express these new ideas leads to a profound change in literary forms, especially those of poetry.
Poetry is for the decadent the only possible intuition of reality and the poet is seen as SEER, that is, as one who among all men is able to grasp the hidden meaning of reality. It follows that the poetic words have more weight, become music and verse, separated from any metrical rules, quickly become, full of meaning and of symbols.
In Italy the most representative authors are the poets of the decadence Giovanni Pascoli & Gabriele D'Annunzio. However, the decadent themes are recognizable in the works of two other major literary figures, writers Italo Svevo and Luigi Pirandello.
sorry for the mistakes;) Gianmarco Di L & rnia
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