Maturity 2022, the memes: “Verga, Pascoli and Di Maio are out”

Pascoli and Verga to the Maturity 2022, but according to social media, not only them came out. There is also Di Maio who left the 5 stars, with a reference to politics on the day of the exam. At 8.30 this morning 520,000 students began their final exams with the first written test.

The traces for understanding, analysis and interpretation of a text are a poem de Myricae by Giovanni Pascoli,The via ferrataand a short story by Giovanni Verga Nedda, Sicilian sketch. For the analysis of an argumentative text there are The only fault of being born by Gherardo Colombo e Liliana Segrethe speech delivered in the Chamber by Giorgio Parisi, Nobel Prize in Physics 2021, and on hyperconnection Keep it on: post comments share without turning off your brain, from a text by Vera Gheno and Bruno Mastroianni. Another theme is music: a text taken by Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia. The Covid theme is in the text of the jurist Luigi Ferrajoli Why a Constitution of the Earth?.

Skuola.net he recalls that in the new millennium, no nineteenth-century Italian literature author had ever come out in the traces of analysis of the text in the final exam. Pascoli and Verga are a novelty and a certainty because they are authors that everyone has made, probably a choice not to put in difficulty young people who come from two years of distance learning. The theme of racial laws and the Shoah instead returned often: Giorgio Bassani, Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt. Digital technologies have already been a theme for 7 years, a couple of times there has already been music.

The usual comments and many jokes have arrived on social media, but above all always the comparison with one’s own maturity. The most cited? The poet Caproni of a few years ago that no one knew.

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