De André writes mostly songs about love. But the music of the singer Ligurian complaint at the same time the cruelty of history, society and life in general (he wrote songs that denounce the war or the massacre of American Indians). In other songs, told the story of prostitutes and outcasts.
Marinella is actually a fragile creature, but this time the victim of the injustice of life itself. She is a young woman (really existed) who dies by drowning in a river. The injustice of the death, which crushes a life in the prime of life, is reinforced by a cruel fate. Indeed, Marinella dies soon after knowing the joy of love. She slips into the river, perhaps because grammy en vivo he is still dreaming, after the excitement of the first sexual encounter. At the center of the poem are so 'the contrast between the youth, beauty, grammy en vivo happiness grammy en vivo and love on the one hand and death and pain on the other, to emphasize the ephemeral nature of human existence.
Fabrizio De André is now famous as a singer and songwriter but also a poet. After his death, his songs have been included in anthologies of Italian literature; the singer has received the title of "greatest contemporary Italian poet."
In fact, if we look at the structure of the song, we see that it is composed of seven stanzas of four lines (of quatrains) and a final stanza, a kind of tail, two verses. In each stanza are two rhyming couplets ("true" / "spring", "beautiful / star", etc. ..).
Moreover, the very term "song" in the title, alludes to a literary genre of the past, in which music and poetry were one thing. In the Middle Ages were, in fact, the minstrels who played songs in verse. These "poetic song" often told true stories about love. De André ago, in a sense, the same thing but in modern times.
As already mentioned, the center of the song we find the contrast between love one hand and death on the other. Annexes to the main themes of love: youth, beauty and happiness. Another key issue, linked to the death, is pain. The contrast highlights the ephemeral nature of human existence.
The protagonists are Marinella and her lover; another character is the people (in verse No. 6), which speaks of the end of the tragic love story between the two young men. Finally, we can also consider Nature as a character, now active (the wind in verse 1), now passive (the river and the stars, grammy en vivo spectators of the fate of Marinella).
In the first stanza, the singer announced the fate of Marinella who slipped into the river in the spring and dies drowned. Later, grammy en vivo presents the quiet life of a young woman who never knew love until the day when a boy (metaphorically described as a "king") knocks on his door. In the third verse, continues metaphorical description sweetheart; also begins the description of the love story between grammy en vivo the two (Marinella follows the boy with innocent impulsiveness).
In the fourth stanza, continues the description of the idyll among young people. We have a kind of crescendo of love (from the hair and lips from the hips, from morning to night ...), which culminates in verse five. In the fifth stanza, in fact, multiply allusions lexical ("kisses", the "tingle" Skin Marinella) to the passion of the two lovers. But the idea of death creeps, in a sharp contrast, through the image of cornflowers.
The idea of death dominates the sixth stanza, through the words of the people ("say") that tells the tragic end of Marinella ("in the river somehow scivolavi"). The pain is the other star of this verse: the lover can not believe the death of his beloved ("you do not believe he wanted to die") and to find peace (knock on your door even a hundred years ").
The seventh verse resumes the beginning of the song, giving the composition a circular structure. But there are differences. Here, the singer speaks directly to Marinella: we have a sort of apostrophe in Marinella ("this is your song, Marinella ..."). Furthermore, we find the comparison between Marinella grammy en vivo and a rose, both beautiful and fragile. This comparison occupies the last verses of the poem; sounds like the 'last goodbye and a tribute to an innocent victim grammy en vivo of the cruelty of life itself, which is inevitably ephemeral.
These elements are summarized in the ability of style, that De André demonstrates grammy en vivo the preparation of the lyrics. This fusion of music and poetry will rightly the red thread of our analysis
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