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“SHAKESPEARE’S THEMES”
Shakespeare’s texts presents 2 important themes: love and the passing of time. Shakespeare viewed love as a winning force; in fact Romeo and Juliet defy their families’ wishes in the name of love. Antony and Cleopatra love for other reasons. Love however , is subject to the passing of time, so only art and poetry can beat the

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In this period he wrote the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge; this lyrics begins with his Preface. The first poem belong to Coleridge (Ancient Mariner); the last belongs to Wordsworth (Tintern Abbey). These years were also characterized by other poems such as “The prelude” an autobiographical poem, “The journals” to give an insight in his experience of p

Unrest and repression
This period represents the passage from an agricultural system to an industrial one. This passage had different reactions: happiness for the birth of machinery, unhappiness for the unemployment, and victory of England over france. It was introduced the theory of smith that say: people shouldn’t follow the internal and external

The flag is very known and it is also called ‘strips and stars’. In fact there are 50 stars which symbolise the 50 states and 13 stripes which symbolise the first 13 states that were colonised by English people.
This country is so big that it passes though 5 time zones: Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific and Alaskan time. This means

2. Ireland is divided into Northern Ireland or Ulster and EIRE, that is the southern part of Ireland and it is an independent republic.
The UK covers an area of about 242 000 square km and its neighbours in the mainland are Belgium and France. UK and France are united by the Chunnel that start in and arrived in…
In Uk there are two ty

Parts: 1) 1-12: description of the setting (place, hour of the day = dusk) with its typical sounds; landscape fades; slowly because it’s a peaceful life. The poet loves the night. 2) 13-28: consideration of the life of the poor, after a “link” between the two parts. About fore-fathers: what they used to do (morning: get up early, go hunting; then: firep

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The preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800), is considered the Manifesto of English Romanticism. In it Wordsworth expressed a new concept of poetry, which emphasized the authenticity of rustic life, the use of simple language and the importance of emotions and imagination.
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