The text by Nicoletta Polla-Mattiot taken from the book “Rediscovering silence. Art, music and poetry, nature between listening and communication” is one of the tracks present in typology B “of argumentative text” chosen for the first written test of the 2024 high school diploma.
Let’s take a closer look at the book by journalist and essayist Nicoletta Polla-Mattiot and why it was chosen based on the themes addressed in the work.
Rediscover silence. Art, music, poetry, nature between listening and communication
Synopsis of the book
Here, therefore, the experience of the journalist and essayist Nicoletta Polla-Mattiot becomes useful for reflecting on the importance of taking a moment all for oneself by stopping to reflect, in silence. Thanks to the author to a cultural journey that ranges from art to music, from poetry to nature, underlines the value of listening and contemplation, fundamental elements for personal growth and understanding of the reality around us.
The choice to use this work as a starting point for the “argumentative text” track B of the first written test allows students to reflect on one of the most current issues today: the excessive presence of stimuli and information that do not allow us to focus on the essentials, and therefore the need to carve out silent spaces in which we can reflect on our lives and rediscover that inner well-being that is essential for living authentically.
Nicoletta Polla-Mattiot
Nicoletta Polla-Mattiot graduated in Rhetoric at the Faculty of Ancient Literature and her passion for studying language (verbal and non-verbal) went hand in hand with her passion for writing. You are a journalist, you have over twenty years of experience in periodicals and newspapers. You currently direct the monthly magazine of Il Sole 24 Ore, How to Spend it, now HTSI, in partnership with the Financial Times and are a professor in the Department of Communication, Arts and Media at Iulm University.
«Silence is an important tool of communication and is among the greatest luxuries of the contemporary era». Comments Nicoletta Polla-Mattiot, speaking of one of her pieces on the rediscovery of silence, proposed today to the 2024 graduates. «Silence does not deny communication, but is a tool to enhance it – she states – we are not talking about ‘absolute silence’, but about an silence that intersperses the word and captures attention in a world in which we are overly solicited.”
Polla-Mattiot, who confesses that he is “very happy” because one of his songs is among the tracks of maturity. «It was nice when I found out», she says satisfied and also specifies that the study of silence that she carries out «is not that of the search for spirituality, but a tool to be included in everyday life».
The academy of silence
In 2010 he founded the Academy of Silence with Duccio Demetrio, a school of pedagogy and communication of silence: a place to meet to share experiences related to silence. An educational space where you can exercise the therapeutic and creative resources of silence against noise pollution, but also against existential pollution.
A research journey, which starts from a simple belief: that silence is an art, which can be experimented, learned and shared. And that rediscovering silence means first of all rebuilding a different relationship with the time of one’s experiences.
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