Brothers by Giuseppe Ungaretti at Old Poetry

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What regiment d'you belong to
brothers?

Word shaking
in the night

Leaf barely born

In the simmering air
involuntary revolt
of the man present at his
brittleness

Brothers

Notes

Mariano 11th July 1916

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by Giuseppe Ungaretti

1888-1970, written in 1916
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Translated by Jonathan Griffin

Categories: War

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