Of all the modern poetry we had to read, I must say that, like many others in the class, I found the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti the most enjoyable of all because I found his poems to be the simplest and easiest to understand. A common theme that seems to persist in many of Ungaretti's poems is that he seems to write a lot about the death and pain that constantly surround him in his environment, perhaps indicating that he was a soldier who wrote these poems at during a war. wartime. Evidence of this is found in the poem Vigil, in which Ungaretti describes spending "an entire night crouching next to one of 'their slaughtered men,' presumably a comrade who was brutally massacred in battle ( Ungaretti, p. ).' Admittedly, initially, when I first read the poem, I was quite confused as to why Ungaretti would devote an entire poem to describing a seemingly meaningless star. However, after reading the poem a second time, I immediately began to realize that this was the case. The poem, like many of Ungarett's other poems, must have had a deep inner meaning. As such, it seems that the poem was most likely about a person that Ungaretti actually loved and that the "star" was just a form of "poetry". the symbolism of his love, which seems to be the main theme of this poem. One of the main reasons Star was my favorite is partly because of all the question marks it leaves and the many possible interpretations one can draw from it. For example, while it seems clear that Ungaretti wrote this poem about someone he loves, who that person actually is is not so clear and is open to interpretation. It could be a woman he is deeply in love with or maybe even one of them. his family