1815-1922, The song of Il Risorgimento
Cracked in the greed of tyranny, Italy was never Italy.
Rose from the ruins of Rome, il Risorgimento.
Gasping to emancipate, you paved your way to a new identity.
Should the old oppressions be restored in 1815? The General Treaty?
“Woe, woe to the tyrants!” Yet vain is the death of Lomonaco
Cracked in the greed of tyranny, Italy was never Italy.
With rage fused with hate, sparked the insurrections of the Carbonari.
While a glimpse of hope was granted by the Sardinian Statuto.
Gasping to emancipate, you paved your way to a new identity.
After the defeat of independence, returned the Hapsburg sovereignty.
In between the great powers, played the diplomacies of Count Camillo.
Cracked in the greed of tyranny, Italy was never Italy.
Under il Tricolore, marched the thousand men of Garibaldi.
Unsatisfied, her irredentism laid upon the provinces of Trentino.
Gasping to emancipate, you paved your way to a new identity.
Yet disappointment brought forth a Mussolini.
As the cause of Risorgimento fell into Fascismo.
Cracked in the greed of tyranny, Italy was never Italy.
Gasping to emancipate, you paved your way to a new identity.
About this poem
On the first time I took my history class on the Risorgimento (or the Italian Unification), I was overwhelmed by its stretch of time and the complexities of the struggles between multiple forces. Unlike the French Revolution which could be memorized by the storming of Bastille and how they chopped down the king’s head, it was as if the Italian Unification became the only mystery in the age of revolution we’ve been ever so familiar with. So I challenged myself to make the supposedly cold and ambiguous narrative of the event in the text book into something that embodied my own perspectives, philosophies, and interpretations while not missing out to tell the sequence of events in a chronological order — a poem. I genuinely apologize for submitting this short (19 lines) verse as an epic, since a villanelle was not available as an option when I’m choosing the poetic form. However, an epic is the closest form I found fit for my poem because it was defined as a narration of a historical ev more »
Written on June 16, 2024
Submitted by kowei_c on June 15, 2024
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | AbA acA xbA acA axA axAA |
|---|---|
| Characters | 1,143 |
| Words | 212 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
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