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v.14 motley: we can consider them actors in their society, but then all changed
vv.14/16 are very important: they refer to the theatre, and are expressed again in the end of the 2nd stanza. They lived as they were on a stage. Th e characters may have a mask. This reinforce the idea of their superficial acquaintance.

2. STANZA
The poe

Yeats was one of the two major poet ( with Eliot) of the first half of the 20th century. Like Eliot he was influenced by European MODERNISM but, unlike Eliot, in that there are also important indigenous elements, both English and Irish in his works.
His early poetry is very much in the romantic tradition but colored by a love for Irish landscapes an

Auden uses the modern war and the Roman war to say his ideas.
ROMAN WALL BLUES
The Roman wall was built in the border between Scotland and England to defend from Romans.
BLUES is a sad music, a popular form of music.
From the first verse to the 6th he wrote about roman soldiers sent to protect the wall.
Verse 8: he is jealous of t

Another feature of the book is the absence of moral condemnation. In fact Emily Bronte has a special vision of life: good and evil are manifestations of the same energy.Love is the positive force that triumphs in the end: Heathcliff and Catherine are united in death, whereas the love between Hareton and Cathy exorcises the demons that have so long posse

First Generation of Romantic Poets
William Wordsworth (Lake District 1770 – 1850). He studied in Cambridge until 1790 when he went on a walking tour of France and Italy, in this period he became a supporter of the French Revolution. He returned in London alone and he met the philosopher William Godwin and the poet Coleridge (the begin of o

The rediscovery of the art and popular traditions of the Middle Ages manifested itself in the so-called 'Gothic vogue', which was the interest in what was wild, irrational, supernatural, horrific
Rousseau's theories influenced the 'cult of the exotic', that which is far away both in space and in time. Danger and disaster, adventure and the inexplica

Nature:
1. Wordsworth feels nature as full of life, as it would be a part of us, in order to a Pantheistic vision; nature is opposed to town, it is a source of feelings and it is pervaded by an active force;
2. Coleridge, instead, sees the nature as the One Life (a divine power), and all his description of landscapes or natural elements, are end

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

Stanza 1_ Setting and shock at the sight
Stanza 2_ Description of the flowers
Stanza 3_ Relationship between the flowers and the poet
Stanza 4_ Emotion recollected in tranquillity
The devices used by Wordsworth in this poem are. Similes: lonely as a cloud; continuous as stars. Personification: crowd, host, (the daffodils) fluttering and