Letteratura Inglese

Vago lungo ogni strada privilegiata
Vicino a dove scorre il privilegiato Tamigi,
E vedo in ogni faccia che incontro
Segni di debolezza, segni di dolore.
In ogni grido di ogni uomo,
In ogni grido infantile di paura,
In ogni voce , in ogni proibizione,
Sento le catene forgiate dalla mente.
Come il grido dello spazzacamino~

This is a Petrarchian sonnet composed by 14 lines and divided in 2 quartins and 2 terzet. The rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDC DCD.
The poet uses metaphor, repetition, personification and simily. This sonnet can be divided into three phrases:
1) introduction
2) description of London
3) poet’s emotional response...

The novel became the most common form of fiction. The novel is fictitious: it narrates about imaginary events and characters although representative of real life.
The 18 th century novelist was the spokesman of the middle classe: he wrote in a simple way to be understood by the less educated readers. The story has to appeal the practical minded trad

lei, tutta la bellezza di figlia delle fate aveva,
capelli assai lunghi, e leggeri i suoi piedi,
e selvaggi i suoi occhi.
 
Io feci una ghirlanda pel suo capo,
e pur bracciali, e odorosa cintura;
lei mi guardò com' avria fatto amore,
dolcemente gemette.
 
Io mi stetti con lei, sul mio cavallo
al passo, e

The poet analyses also the process which must follow for makes a poetic opera.
First of all the poet lives a sensory experience, then he makes emotion. In a second time, in tranquillity, with the memory, kindred the same emotion and at last he writes a poem. In this passage we can be read the theme which caracterize the Romantic poetry: an exaltatio

Metaphisical poetry reflects the crisis of the renaissance man: he looks for a new trhuth and dimension and he tries to give voice to chaotic experience that is ordinary life:his poetry is difficult because life is chaotic irregualr, difficult.
THE SUN RISING
At the beginning he addresses the sun using an insulting,angry,scornful tone. When he s

The king was elected by the witan composed by the most important nobles or thanes from the seven kingdoms. They were organized in villages. Every village was governed by the thane whose task was to make everybody obey the law and to guide his man to battle. There were no prisons, the criminals where mutilated, hanged or submitted to a trial by ordeal.

The second story talks about Maria and Malvolio (Olivia’s steward). She play him a truck, she wrote a letter to make Malvolio ridiculous. Ih the letter she had written that the countess had fallen in love with him and she made some requests (to wear yellow garter and to have hostile attidute) that make Malvolio ridiculous. Everyone thought that he had b

Shelley è contro il re e i principi e attacca la cultura del tempo.
Il re ( Giorgio III) muore nel 1819 e viene sostituito dai figli.
È contro la politica agricola perché la “CORN LAW” imponeva il pagamento dei dazi per il grano proveniente dall’America; gli inglesi morivano di fame ed erano costretti a comprare il grano inglese che comunque ave

PROSE (pag.55)
Anglo-Saxon prose developed thanks to King Alfred who ordered to write the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. He was a very learned man and founded a school for nobles and he himself translated “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum” by Bede and De Consolatione Filosofiae by Boezio. Then we have to remember Aelfric who translated from the Old Te