Libido e contemplazione erotica nel testo "La vucchella", di Gabriele D'Annunzio e Paolo Tosti.

"A vucchella'' is a Neapolitan song composed by Paolo Tosti. The poet who wrote the words of this song was the 19th century lyric poet, Gabriele D'Annunzio. He was not from Naples, but from a city in the region of Abruzzo. 

With the Neapolitan melodic song tradition being so popular worldwide, D'Annunzio wanted to prove himself able to write in the Neapolitan dialect, and managed to do so quite convincingly for this song, "La vucchella".

 

One interpretation is that the woman's mouth is like a little rose's petal when it becomes a bit dried out and battered in the cold weather.

The poet has turned his gaze on the woman's face and focussed on the woman's mouth, specifically.

"A vucchella" is thus a synecdoche – the part for the whole.

Erminia Passannanti, Erodiade, 2014.