Il dialetto in poesia. Studio metrico sulla poesia novecentesca del Nord-Italia

This study is articulated around the contemporary dialectal poetry of northern Italy. It is focused on the metric of poems written in different dialects chosen for their linguistic system unity, such as the “galloitalico” that influences the language of the following regions of Northern Italy: Piemonte, Lombardia, Liguria and Emilia Romagna. The corpus selected is organized around specific poetic forms that give the “verso libero” a kind of steadiness in the second half on the twentieth century, such as the “simple” and almost archetypal structures of the “quartine”, the “ottave” and of all other strophes that constitute a multiple of four. These choices that could appear arbitrary are actually linked to the choices of the poets, who often appropriate the traditional metric canevas to change them, or on the contrary to follow them. The links with the tradition and the concept of liberty into the closing structures are therefore studied in relation to the metric such as the form, the rime, the versification and the rhythm. As Raboni declared, we will understand in this manner how “la dissonanza può essere usata per «salvare» l’ipotesi tonale” and how “la trasgressione metrica finisce col prolungare la vita della regola alla quale, derivandone, si oppone” (Giovanni RABONI, L’opera poetica, a cura di Rodolfo ZUCCO, Milano, Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2006, p.403). The aim of this study is therefore to explore and explain the metrical ambiguity of the contemporary dialectal poetry keeping in mind a central article for studies of this type written by Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo and entitled Questioni metriche novecentesche. This thesis will extend the debate on the regional contemporary poetry still in its infancy, as well as offer an essential even if brief panorama that puts the innovative and, at times, conservative aspects of the contemporary dialectal poetry of some regions of Northern Italy in the foreground.