My Poet

When the list of poets came out for who we could choose to write about for our quarter three essay, I was probably one of few people that didn't have the slightest clue who to pick before looking at the list. As I scanned through the long list of names I had never heard, I came across Giacomo Leopardi. I was sold. I had not heard about him until then, but the Italian name was more than enough to grab my interest. AP Italian is one of my courses this year so I thought that choosing Giacomo Leopardi would teach me a lot of things that benefit me in both classes. I figured he must be very important in Italy since he was on the list so it would be possible that I would come across his name learning about culture. I also assumed his original poems would have been in Italian and translated into English. Good news is... I was right. I couldn't wait to read his poems in both languages and compare them which I originally thought would be the main focus for my paper. The first thing I did when I chose him was just google his name to see what would come up. I saw he lived during the late 1700s and early 1800s and had a declining health as he got older which fascinated me. It was certainly unfortunate, but because of his health decline he had a different perspective on life and accomplished great feats in his work. I'm not usually excited to write papers even though I like to write, but I didn't think this one would cause any issues for me. His poems were something I didn't mind reading when I got to them.