This article extracted from my master thesis intends to examine "Il Porto Sepolto" (The Buried Port) by Giuseppe Ungaretti, from a structural - thematic perspective and from the point of view of language and words with a stylistic perspective. Ungaretti was an Italian poet born in Alexandria of Egypt to parents from Lucca, who later was educated in Paris.

The study starts from the analysis of the roots of the poet, a precursor of the poetic movement of Hermeticism. Roots deeply set in Egypt, his birthplace, marked by the presence of the desert and of the Nile, but also in Italy, the land of his parents that later welcomed him, and in France, at that time a cultural crossroads of extraordinary importance, country that put him in contact with the poetry of Baudelaire and, above all, of Mallarmé.

From this cultural synthesis, which does not exclude the influence of Futurism, emerges the collection entitled "Il Porto Sepolto", a diary in verses that describes, albeit not in a systematic way, the devastating and traumatic experience of the First World War, in which the poet-soldier Ungaretti participated, and, above all, that examines the human condition.