ITA310H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Human Condition
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Later this week the topics for the paper will be sent out. The paper will be on verga. (due march 30th) Leopardi" s autobiography contextualized in terms of his youth and timely death. Themes he incarnates and is known for as the greatest lyrical poet of the 19th century. He must be framed in a particular critical context in order to be appreciated, a poet who struggles intellectually with for now generically the human condition. Human condition defined in a negative or pessimistic way. How he journeys and develops his own poetic view, from the this true view of life and the human condition, how he changes and ends his own physical life by having his own different view of the human condition. A view in which he will be able too provide illuminated possibility for human kind to find a philosophical solution to this condition. Our only hope to counter this is .
