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Comparing Dino Campana's A Trolley Ride To America And Back

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Dino Campana is an eccentric Italian poet. In his life he traveled through Europe and Latin America, becoming a ‘poet of two worlds’. His only published work “Canti Orfici” (Orphic Songs), reflects many ideas of fear, opportunity, and love. The various poems given in class represent the Americas and the different aspects of them. The poem I want to analyze is “A Trolley Ride to America and Back”. This story recounts the departure of a person from Genoa to the Americas. The poem reflects Campana’s relationship with the feelings that occur when traveling away from one’s home. He uses vivid imagery and language to convey the emotions that are felt. However, the poem doesn’t go through the entire journey from leaving his home to arrival in the …show more content…

Most importantly, Campana talks about leaving the “spent lantern” of Genoa. The lantern can be seen as being the Italian version of the statue of liberty. Just like the American version, when you see the lantern of Genoa, you know you’ve made it to Italy. The opposite applies in Campana’s poem, as when the lantern leaves the horizon, the moment when he leaves Italy is marked. Just like all the other lines in the poem, there is a sense of lament in his descriptions of emigrating. His embarking away is further intensified with the line, “Birds were flying far away from the nest and so was I: but without joy”. Just like a bird during the offseason, he had to migrate for the opportunities that other places would have for him, but he may possibly never return home again. All of his life was left behind forever, but he now has the American opportunity to make his new life better. However, Campana feels sorrow when leaving as even though life will be better, he will never see Italy again. This is a feeling that many immigrants share when leaving their countries to move to the U.S. Looking back at the Riccio readings, there were many stories about how the people that emigrated knew that there wasn’t any other option. They were forced to leave their family behind, but in the end they did it for the opportunity that America brought to

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