{{Short description|19th century Pre-Romantic Sonnet}} {{Multiple issues| {{onesource||date=July 2024}} {{Expand language|topic=culture|langcode=it|otherarticle=A Zacinto|date=July 2024}} }} [[File:Foscolo.jpg|thumb|180px|Ugo Foscolo]] {{quote box |title=A Zacinto |align=right |<poem>Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde <br /> ove il mio corpo fanciulletto giacque, <br /> Zacinto mia, che te specchi nell'onde <br /> del greco mar da cui vergine nacque <br />
Venere, e fea quelle isole feconde <br /> col suo primo sorriso, onde non tacque <br /> le tue limpide nubi e le tue fronde <br /> l'inclito verso di colui che l'acque <br />
cantò fatali, ed il diverso esiglio <br /> per cui bello di fama e di sventura <br /> baciò la sua petrosa Itaca Ulisse. <br />
Tu non altro che il canto avrai del figlio, <br /> o materna mia terra; a noi prescrisse <br /> il fato illacrimata sepoltura.</poem>}} {{quote box |title=A Zacinto (English translation) |<poem>Never will I touch your sacred shore again <br /> where my young form reclined at rest, <br /> Zakynthos, regarding yourself in waves <br /> of the Greek sea, where Venus was <br />
virgin born, and made those islands bloom <br /> with her first smile; nor did he bypass <br /> your lacy clouds and leafy fronds <br /> in glorious verse, the one who sang <br />
of fatal seas, and of the broad exile <br /> after which, exalted by fame and by adventure, <br /> Ulysses kissed his rocky native Ithaca. <br />
You will have nothing of your son but his song, <br /> motherland of mine: and our fate already <br /> written, the unmourned grave.</poem>}} "'''A Zacinto'''" ({{IPA|it|a ddzaˈtʃinto|lang}}; "To Zakynthos") is a pre-Romantic sonnet written by Ugo Foscolo in 1803.
==Short analysis== The sonnet is about the poet's feelings: when he wrote the poem he was in exile, so he knew that his remains would have been buried far away from his natal island, Zante, and nobody would have cried on his grave. The poet compares himself to Odysseus and finds a difference: the Greek hero, after the Trojan War and his long travel to home, returned to Ithaca and was buried there. The word {{lang|it|giacque}}, that is "reclined, lay" (second line), is an anticipation of the theme of death, which the last stanza focuses on.
In the sonnet there are both neoclassical and romantic elements: references to the classical tradition (Aphrodite, Homer and Odysseus) are typical of neoclassicism and the focus on the poet, the theme of graves and remains and the homesickness are typical of romanticism.
==Prosody== The sonnet is made up of two quatrains and two tercets of hendecasyllables. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, ABAB, CDE, CED. In the poem we can find enjambments, alliterations, apostrophes, synecdoches, anastrophes and a litotes.
==References== {{reflist}} {{inline|date=July 2024}} *Romano Luperini, Pietro Catadi, Lidia Marchiani, Franco Marchese, ''Il nuovo. La scrittura e l'interpretazione'', volume 1, Palumbo editore, {{ISBN|978-88-8020-846-4}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zacinto, A}} Category:1803 poems Category:Italian poems Category:Sonnets Category:Works by Ugo Foscolo