Enrico Testa, The boy’s blood. Poetry and youth

Within this essay a phenomenological dimension inquires the relationship between youth and poetry, drawing on different authors such as Hölderlin, Benjamin, Leopardi, Montale and others: youth as memory, trouble and landscape. But youth and poetry are also analysed in the light of the deconstructive dimension, where the despairing question wants to get out of the frame of an idyll, through death and search for absolute. In the dimension of responsibility, such relationship leads then to the opening towards maturity, where the tragic of the loss is reconstruction of a sense.