THE SHADOW lINE ( title taken from Joseph Conrad's novel) is a methaphor for describing a crossroads in human life, facing a desperate crisis, in War Time, or in other crucial periods of our life. The First World War represented a sort of WATERSHED between the age of innocence and The POST-WAR, for the human beings War was the moment of the loss of youthful illusions, the shadow line between youth and maturity but at the same time, the shadow can represent DEATH; it is hanging over our heads , the sense of caducity of life was emphasized because of War by the greatest poets and novelists ( Ungaretti, War Poets....)
" Si sta come d'autunno sugli alberi le foglie"
- Teacher: GIUSEPPINA CANNATA