Eugenio Montale And ‘I’He Inexpressible

Abstract An issue central to Montale’s poetry is the place of language in creating something quite different from and perhaps independent of any original state of mind during the process of 1inguistic expression. This process is a complex one, and one that has attracted much attention in the fields of psychology, linguistics, and literary criticism. It is often de scribed as being composed of two parts;, the first being the ‘translation’ of non-verbal fragments and images into the inner verbal language