place
the Arsenale
the Arsenal
also: Arsenal
The great state shipyard of Venice; in late-autumn the dying city musters from it a phantom war-fleet 'radiant and fatal.'
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §58 Arsenal
The Venetian Arsenale, the great shipyard; out of the city's old pile-driven 'forest-skeletons' a phantom fleet musters overnight, 'radiant and fatal.'
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §455 Arsenal
The Arsenal of Venice, the vast state shipyard whose round-the-clock labour built the Republic's fleets; for Malte it embodies the 'real, wakeful' Venice of will beneath the tourists' opiate one.