Quando vier a Primavera, por Fernando Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

“Quando vier a Primavera” by Fernando Pessoa, written under his heteronym Alberto Caeiro: English and Italian translation, Portuguese original text, critical analysis and interpretation by Enzo Martinelli. Complete study of “When Spring comes” with AI-generated imagery and literary commentary on Pessoa’s poetry. Continue reading Quando vier a Primavera, por Fernando Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

Noche del amor insomne, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

Noche del amor insomne – Sonetos del amor oscuro – Federico García Lorca – 1936 – with translation into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2022 Enzo Martinelli Noche arriba los dos con luna llena,yo me puse a llorar y tú reías.Tu desdén era un dios, las quejas míasmomentos y palomas en cadenaNoche abajo los dos. Cristal de pena,llorabas tú por hondas lejanías.Mi dolor … Continue reading Noche del amor insomne, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

Matin, by Rimbaud 🌊✒️🇫🇷

Matin – Une saison en enfer – Arthur Rimbaud – 1873 – with translations from French into 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2022 Enzo Martinelli N’eus-je pas une fois une jeunesse aimable, héroïque, fabuleuse, à écrire sur des feuilles d’or, — trop de chance ! Par quel crime, par quelle erreur, ai-je mérité ma faiblesse actuelle ? Vous qui prétendez que … Continue reading Matin, by Rimbaud 🌊✒️🇫🇷

We two – how long we were fool’d, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖

Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Children of Adam – 1855 – translated from English into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2022 Enzo Martinelli WE two — how long we were fool’d!Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes;We are Nature — long have we been absent, but now we return;We become plants, leaves, foliage, roots, bark;We are bedded in … Continue reading We two – how long we were fool’d, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖

Soneto de la dulce queja, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

Soneto de la dulce queja – Sonetos del amor oscuro – Federico García Lorca – 1936 – with translation into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2022 Enzo Martinelli Tengo miedo a perder la maravillade tus ojos de estatua y el acentoque me pone de noche en la mejillala solitaria rosa de tu aliento.Tengo pena de ser en esta orilla tronco sin ramas, y … Continue reading Soneto de la dulce queja, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

The top 10 most popular translation posts for 2021

This is a celebratory post to mark the end of 2021, which has been a peculiar year, still tarnished by the effects of the COVID global pandemic. This one refers to the most popular poetry translation published in my blog, which feature poems by Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, Fernando Pessoa and Federico García Lorca in original language with translations in various languages. Continue reading The top 10 most popular translation posts for 2021

Fernando Pessoa, watercolour portrait

Falas de civilização, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

from In Poemas Inconjuntos – In Poesia, Assírio e Alvim, ed. Fernando Cabral Martins, 1935, by Alberto Caeiro – heteronym of Fernando Pessoa – translated into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 Enzo Martinelli Falas de civilização, e de não dever ser, Ou de não dever ser assim. Dizes que todos sofrem, ou a maioria de todos, Com as cousas humanas postas desta … Continue reading Falas de civilização, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

To the garden, the world, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖

Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Children of Adam – 1855 – translated from English into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 Enzo Martinelli To the garden, the world, anew ascending,Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,Curious, here behold my resurrection, after slumber;The revolving cycles, in their wide sweep, having brought me again,Amorous, … Continue reading To the garden, the world, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖