ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how a poetics of space comes to play an important role within D'Annunzio's work, surfacing as a constant factor, a point of eternal return and a permanent unifying element though it undergoes obvious metamorphoses. If it is true that D'Annunzio's work, which is essentially anti-narrative, implies a dissolution of time, space functions to give it a fixed character. Pescaras sea is thus the dominant theme and if, beneath the freshness of the poet's school-time memories, it is readily transformed and becomes interchangeable now and again with the Greek sea of antiquity. The convent on the sea, set deep within a calm and natural landscape, is perched on a hill overlooking the blue stretch of the Adriatic on one side, and on the other looking out towards the hills and mountains of Abruzzo.
