Pascoli's 'fanciullino' theory of poetry achieves in practice the creation
of a new language of poetry which replaces the heritage of ideas and images of
the past with the recognition of a new poetic field of object-reality. Especially
in the Myricae, the poems contain a small group of images which in their
simple and uncommon referentiality take hold of the reader's mind. The world
is reduced to these images which become universal symbols, captured not only
visually but also in their sound. The mind that shifts from image to image
produces a fragmented and suspended syntactical rhythm which matches,
thematically, the loss of equilibrium that can only be compensated for in fresh
combinations of words and, thus, new revelations of reality
