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folklore, and legends later appeared in many of his works.
His father was an artist and free thinker who influenced his son in love for art, particularly painting.
When he left school he decided to become an artist, but soon discovered that his real vocation was poetry, and published his first poems in the Dublin University Review, in 1885. Yeat

• He is religious himself but he’s against the church as an institution.

SONGS OF INNOCENCE & SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
• Published in two different period, but they were collected together.
• Contraposition, union of discordant elements (childhood, adulthood, good part, bad part). Blake does not put them in contrast: there’s a continuity.~~~

Main works.
Blake’s works can be divided into 3 groups:
- his earliest works are his best known:
Poetical Sketches;
Songs of Innocence, in which Blake thinks that child is the symbol of innocence and he lives in a condition of freedom, happiness and imagination. Only the child and the poet can find the truth in everything because they

The phrase "full of sleep" both carries the broad connotation of death, and describes the sleeping that leads to dreaming. Reading, then, these words, she begins to dream about the past and her own youth. The second stanza is descriptive of her dream of the past. As a transition from the first stanza into the second, she remembers her own "soft look,"

di cui fu amministratore capace. Nel 1584 finanziò un viaggio di esplorazione
lungo le coste dell'America Settentrionale, tra la Florida e la Carolna
del Nord, dando il nome di ?Virginia? (in onore di Elisabetta detta ?la
Regina vergine?) a un vasto territorio, l'esplorazione del quale, tuttavia,
non si spinse fino all'attuale Stato dell

W. thinks that childhood is the most important stage in man’s life, because the child’s emotions are retained in the memory: memory is the major force in the process of growth and it is essential for poetic creation too, because for W. the poetry is an “emotion recollected in tranquillity”, so the poet have the emotions and the feelings (in front of nat

Description of a group of soldiers that are coming back from the battle.
Lines 1-2: there are two similes:
-"Bent double like old beggars under sacks"→ Tenor: soldiers; Vehicle: old beggars; Ground: the same appearance.
-"Coughing like hags"→ Tenor: soldiers; Vehicle: hags (witches); Ground: bad health.
→Both these similies show us t

Gonna = skirt
Guanti = gloves
Impermeabile = rain coat
Infradito = flip-flop
Maglietta = t-shirt
Maglione con bottoni = cardigan
Maglione = jumper o sweater
Mi sta bene (estetica) = it suits me
Mi va bene (taglia) = it fits me
Mutande F = knickers
Mutande M = underpants
Pantaloncini corti = shorts
Pantal

Early Life and Writings
James Joyce was born into a well-off Catholic family in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar. He was the eldest surviving child; two of his siblings died of typhoid. His father's family, originally from Cork, were wealthy merchants. In 1887, his father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was appointed rate collector by Dublin Corporation; the fa

When her father died in 1904 she moved to a new area of London, Bloomsbury, where she founded a close circle of intellectuals → Bloomsbuty Group.
As a group they saw themselves as sharing common values which emphasised the importance of subjectivity, aesthetic enjoyment, personal ties of affection, and intellectual honesty.
They were hostile t