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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XIV , n° 1, Giugno 1996 ( Contributi ) pag. 36-47
CONFRONTING THE ARTIFACT: INTERROGATIVE
EKPHRASIS IN KEATS AND LEOPARDI
CRISTINA LA PORTA
Columbia University,
New York, N. Y.
Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820), probably the best known ekphrastic poem in English, has become central to critical discussions of verbal and visual impulses. Leopardi's Sopra un bassorilievo antico sepolcrale (1835) begins with a remarkably similar premise but takes ekphrasis in a different direction. Like Keats, Leopardi in his Sopra un bassorilievo resists the "traditional ekphrastic impulse to narrate"1. Both poets want to hear the artifact speak. The term "ekphrasis" derives from the Geek "ekphrasein", which means "to speak out" or "to tell in full". Jean Hagstrum defines ekphrasis as a description which gives "a voice and language to the otherwise mute art object"2. [...]
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